Saint Augustine Quotes

The playthings of our elders are called business.

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Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

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Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

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Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, "It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you.

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True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

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For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

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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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The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.

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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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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

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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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God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

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Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

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I believe in order to understand

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Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

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Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.

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I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

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A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

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