Saint Augustine Quotes, Wish Quotes, Misery Quotes

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

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It is a sin to judge any man by his post

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Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?

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Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

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No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face.

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Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

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Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

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O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

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The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

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He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

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O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

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Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

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The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

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His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

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If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.

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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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