Saint Augustine Quotes, Fall Quotes

He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.

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This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

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Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

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People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

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If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

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What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

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AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

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Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

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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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Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down to the things of earth here below. He points out that these frail and mortal objects could not be endowed with a beauty so immaculate and so exquisitely wrought, did they not issue from the Divinity which endlessly prevades with its invisible and unchanging beauty all things.

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Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.

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God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.

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Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

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God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

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By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].

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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

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Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

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A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.

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Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.

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Salvation is God's way of making us real people.

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