Saint Augustine Quotes, Angel Quotes, Names Quotes

Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

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A marriage without children is the world without the sun.

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Patience is the companion of wisdom.

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

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Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

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

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The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

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God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

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His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

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What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.

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And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

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Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.

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In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this thing or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.

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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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Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?

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Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.

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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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You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

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This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.

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Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

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