Saint Augustine Quotes, Truth Quotes

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

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There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

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To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.

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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

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Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

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It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.

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There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.

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Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.

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Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

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If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

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The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

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Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

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Truth is not private property.

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

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

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Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

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Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

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What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

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