Saint Augustine Quotes, Father Quotes, Son Quotes

AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

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There is no possible source of evil except good.

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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

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Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

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Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?

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

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

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Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though there be no numbering of infinite numbers, is yet not incomprehensible by Him Whose understanding is infinite. And thus, if everything which is comprehended is defined or made finite by the comprehension of him who knows it, then all infinity is in some ineffable way made finite to God, for it is comprehensible by His knowledge.

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Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

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There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

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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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Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.

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"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

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He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

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Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak.

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A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.

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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

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It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

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For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more.

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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

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