Saint Augustine Quotes, Rome Quotes, Cities Quotes

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.

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The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

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One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.

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They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.

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Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.

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For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

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We should never use the truth to wound.

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The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.

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If you understood him, it would not be God.

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Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.

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It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

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An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."

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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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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

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The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word

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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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The purpose of all wars, is peace.

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Love is ever new because it never groweth old.

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It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

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Doubt is but another element of faith.

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