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

—Saint Augustine

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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

—Saint Augustine

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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

—Saint Augustine

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Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet

—Saint Augustine

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Patience is the companion of wisdom.

—Saint Augustine

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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

—Saint Augustine

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Love, and do what you like

—Saint Augustine

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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

—Saint Augustine

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

—Saint Augustine

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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man’s wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would...

—Saint Augustine

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Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

—Saint Augustine

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears...

—Saint Augustine

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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

—Saint Augustine

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For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow...

—Saint Augustine

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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

—Saint Augustine

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

—Saint Augustine

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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

—Saint Augustine

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Understanding is the reward of faith.

—Saint Augustine

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Faith
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions...

—Saint Augustine

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

—Saint Augustine

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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

—Saint Augustine

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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

—Saint Augustine

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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.

—Saint Augustine

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Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

—Saint Augustine

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

—Saint Augustine

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Hear the other side.

—Saint Augustine

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

—Saint Augustine

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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

—Saint Augustine

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

—Saint Augustine

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The world’s verdict is conclusive.

—Saint Augustine

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

—Saint Augustine

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

—Saint Augustine

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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the...

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God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing...

—Saint Augustine

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He that is jealous is not in love.

—Saint Augustine

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Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.

—Saint Augustine

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

—Saint Augustine

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Loves
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

—Saint Augustine

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

—Saint Augustine

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Soul
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People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars; and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

—Saint Augustine

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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

—Saint Augustine

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The purpose of all wars…is peace.

—Saint Augustine

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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

—Saint Augustine

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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?

—Saint Augustine

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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

—Saint Augustine

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You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.

—Saint Augustine

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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

—Saint Augustine

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The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell

—Saint Augustine

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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

—Saint Augustine

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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

—Saint Augustine

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