Saint Augustine Quotes, Soul Quotes, Overcoming Quotes

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

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What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

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He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.

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Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?

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I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

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Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

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

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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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God without us will not as we without God cannot.

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The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word

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Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

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For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.

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O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

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Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

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

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If faith fails, prayer perishes.

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The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

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All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.

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Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

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