Saint Augustine Quotes

You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

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Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

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There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

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Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)

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To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendour. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure but does not complain, for it is the friction which polishes him. It is the pressure which refines and makes him noble

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It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

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Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.

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Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

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We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.

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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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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.

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Doubt is but another element of faith.

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Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.

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If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.

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The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

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His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

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It is a sin to judge any man by his post

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I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.

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You are what you love.

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