Saint Augustine Quotes, Wings Quotes, People Quotes

You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

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It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

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The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

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Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

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I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

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Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

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Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

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Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

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You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

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