Saint Augustine Quotes, Ocean Quotes, Men Quotes

As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. Even if some unknown landmass is there, and not just ocean, there was only one pair of original ancestors, and it is inconceivable that such distant regions should have been peopled by Adam's descendants.

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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

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Doubt is but another element of faith.

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Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

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

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For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

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What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

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While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

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The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

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There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.

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It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

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Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

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

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Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

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

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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

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