Saint Augustine Quotes, Men Quotes, Sky Quotes

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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If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.

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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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Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?

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Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.

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When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when you infest the whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.

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Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.

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By and by never comes.

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Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

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God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

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O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

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The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

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Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.

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When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

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Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.

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It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

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The measure of love is to love without measuring.

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

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No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face.

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