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St. Augustine Quotes
“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
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St. Augustine Quotes
“To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.”
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“If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.”
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“The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.”
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“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
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“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
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“Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”
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“Love, and do what you like.”
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“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”
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“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.”
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“Understanding is the reward of faith.”
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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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“Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr.”
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“No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.”
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“There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.”
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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 rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.”
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“God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.”
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“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
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“Indifferent acts are judged by their ends; sins are judged by themselves.”
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“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.”
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“Do not marry someone you can live with – marry the person who you cannot live without.”
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“Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.”
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“God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.”
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“Give me chastity… but not yet .”
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“A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.”
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“There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.”
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“If I am deceived, I am. For he who does not exist cannot be deceived; and if I am deceived, by this same token I am.”
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“Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.”
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“Don’t you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him?”
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“The love of worldly possessions is a sort of bird line, which entangles the soul, and prevents it flying to God.”
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“Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.”
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“Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.”
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“This then is not God, if thou has comprehended it; but if this be God, thou hast not comprehended it.”
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“To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.”
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“The world's verdict is conclusive.”
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