Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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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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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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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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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.
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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.
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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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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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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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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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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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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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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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It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.
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Hear the other side.
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Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.