Saint Augustine Quotes, Fall Quotes

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

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Doubt is but another element of faith.

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Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

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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 Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.

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It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.

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And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

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Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down to the things of earth here below. He points out that these frail and mortal objects could not be endowed with a beauty so immaculate and so exquisitely wrought, did they not issue from the Divinity which endlessly prevades with its invisible and unchanging beauty all things.

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By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].

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

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They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.

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Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.

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I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.

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One loving heart sets another on fire.

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My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

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It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

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I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

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God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

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A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.

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I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.

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