Saint Augustine Quotes, Love Is Quotes, Roots Quotes

Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.

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In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.

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Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

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Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.

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The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

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People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

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Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.

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The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

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A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot

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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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Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

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It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.

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For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

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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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The Devil invented gambling.

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Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

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Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born.

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The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

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One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever.

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