Saint Augustine Quotes, Punishment Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

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Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

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Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean, the course of the stars-and forget to wonder at themselves. Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

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For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.

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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

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Love is ever new because it never groweth old.

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Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

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Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.

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What can be hoped for which is not believed?

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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

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We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.

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Charity is the root of all good works.

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He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.

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I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

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Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

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If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

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A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.

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