Saint Augustine Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Christian Quotes

What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

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I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

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Charity is the root of all good works.

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Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

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For in our hope we are saved.

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Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

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No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

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Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

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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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Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?

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The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

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Love and say it with your life.

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It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

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Between urine and filth we are born.

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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

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It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.

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A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.

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For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God.

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Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

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