Saint Augustine Quotes, Children Quotes, Ambition Quotes

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

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Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?

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God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

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The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

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Custom is second nature.

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Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

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Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

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Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.

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The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

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Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'

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Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

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It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral in her virginity, brought him forth, made visible for us, by whom, when he was invisible, she too was created. A Virgin conceiving, a Virgin bearing, a Virgin pregnant, a Virgin bringing forth, a Virgin perpetual. Why do you wonder at this, O man?

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When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

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