Saint Augustine Quotes

For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

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Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

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Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

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To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

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The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely. The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is His Church; the bridegroom and the bride, two in one flesh. All who dissent from the Scriptures concerning Christ, although they may be found in all places in which the Church is found, are not in the Church; and again all those who agree with the Scriptures concerning the Head, and do not communicate in the unity of the Church, are not in the Church.

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Anger is a weed; hate is a tree

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

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Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

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There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.

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Between urine and filth we are born.

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