Saint Augustine Quotes, Humility Quotes, Pride Quotes

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

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He that is jealous is not in love.

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He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

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O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

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The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.

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Understanding is the wages of faith.

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A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by Whom the world itself was made; for he is warned by the precept of the apostle and faithfully hears what has been said, 'Beware that no one deceive you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the elements of the world'

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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown.

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For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply "today."

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Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.

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

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This world's a bubble.

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Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking.

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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

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Singing is a lover's thing.

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Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

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Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

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Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

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Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

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