Saint Augustine Quotes, Substance Quotes, Wickedness Quotes

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

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A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

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Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture.

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

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I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

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God is best known in not knowing him.

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The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him, though otherwise than as they shall reign hereafter; and yet, though the tares grow in the Church along with the wheat, they do not reign with Him. For they reign with Him who do what the apostle says, 'If you are risen with Christ, mind the things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. Seek those things which are above, not the things which are on the earth'.

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We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

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Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

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What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

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The playthings of our elders are called business.

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Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

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We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .

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