Saint Augustine Quotes, Progress Quotes, Delay Quotes

Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

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The greatest evil is physical pain.

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Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'

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Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

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... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for it seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should be foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man was the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon the Cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it blood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by which the Church is built up.

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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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Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

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We come to God by love and not by navigation.

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To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

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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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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

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Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

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You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

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Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

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

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God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.

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The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.

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Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

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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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