Saint Augustine Quotes, Prayer Quotes, Struggle Quotes

Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: 'Forgive us our debts,' because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness.

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Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.

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Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.

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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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To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

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Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean, the course of the stars-and forget to wonder at themselves. Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

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Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.

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For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you.

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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

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The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

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The Devil invented gambling.

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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

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Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

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There is no possible source of evil except good.

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Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

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Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

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