Saint Augustine Quotes, Heart Quotes

One loving heart sets another on fire.

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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

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

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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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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

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The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

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I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.

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God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

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Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

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They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.

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For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

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Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

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Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking.

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When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

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For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply "today."

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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

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