Saint Augustine Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Heart Quotes

Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?

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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

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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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Understanding is the reward of faith.

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Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

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The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

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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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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

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The diversity of language alienates man from man

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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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You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

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The argument is at an end.

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There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.

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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

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We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

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Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born.

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I am convinced that in all history there has never been a greater need to Pray for our Pastors than exists right now! Pastors are experiencing an unprecedented wave of attacks, stresses, challenges. obstacles. pressures.

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A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.

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Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

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