Saint Augustine Quotes, Soul Quotes, Contentment Quotes

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

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He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

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Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.

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In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.

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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

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

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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

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Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

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The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

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All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

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No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility

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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

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For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

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Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.

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It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

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Things are solved by walking around.

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Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking.

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