Saint Augustine Quotes

One can't reach the Truth but through Love.

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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

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Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

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God is best known in not knowing him.

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The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

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If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

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I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

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A marriage without children is the world without the sun.

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

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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.

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O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread.

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When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

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Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.

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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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For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

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Understanding is the wages of faith.

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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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What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond.

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Only He who made man makes man happy.

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