Saint Augustine Quotes
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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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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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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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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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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Custom is second nature.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
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I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.
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Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.
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Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.