Saint Augustine Quotes, World Quotes

The world's verdict is conclusive.

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O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

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Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

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Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

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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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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

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I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.

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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

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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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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

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God is best known in not knowing him.

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We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.

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Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.

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In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

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Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary

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Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.

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Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

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The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

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

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They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

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