Saint Augustine Quotes, Life Quotes, Beauty Quotes

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

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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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What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker men are, the more they are troubled by such matters. Their weakness stems from a desire to appear learned, not with a knowledge of things, by which we are edified, but with a knowledge of signs, by which it is difficult not to be puffed up in some way; even a knowledge of things often makes people boastful, unless their necks are held down by the Lord's yoke.

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It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

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A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

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Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

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We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

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Truth is not private property.

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He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.

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What do I love when I love my God?

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My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

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If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.

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He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

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There is no salvation outside the church.

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Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

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Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

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