Saint Augustine Quotes
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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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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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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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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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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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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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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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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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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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.
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Hear the other side.
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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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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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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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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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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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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.