Saint Augustine Quotes, Humility Quotes, Firsts Quotes

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

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If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

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Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

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The diversity of language alienates man from man

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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

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Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

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Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

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Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

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There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.

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No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

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Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

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I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with the words of the Gospel and they received it without pretence on their part and with some degree of faith. However, it would not avail them for their spiritual salvation if they were lacking in that charity by which they might be implanted in the Catholic Church.

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Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

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Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

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The reward of patience Is patience.

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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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Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.

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