Saint Augustine Quotes, Past Quotes

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

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Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

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Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

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The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

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Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

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Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

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Truth is not private property.

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It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith of those presenting him or ministering to him,' but, 'Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit.' The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam.

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As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

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If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

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For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

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Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

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Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

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Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

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No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility

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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

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