Saint Augustine Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Prayer Quotes

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

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

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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

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O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

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The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.

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

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Hell was made for the inquisitive.

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Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

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The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

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Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not.

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What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.

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There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

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It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.

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God gives where he finds empty hands.

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Custom is second nature.

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Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

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Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

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