Saint Augustine Quotes, Heaven Quotes, Calling Quotes

And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?

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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

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Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.

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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

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

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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

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Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

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Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

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You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

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To sing is to pray twice.

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God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

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And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?

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I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within

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The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

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We speak, but it is God who teaches.

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What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.

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One loving heart sets another on fire.

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