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prasanna
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 Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 12:04 am |
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Saint Augustine Quotes
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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.
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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 deeper must be its foundation.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Give me chastity and continence, but not quite yet.
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
He that is jealous is not in love.
Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Saint Augustine
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
Saint Augustine
Hear the other side.
Saint Augustine
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
Saint Augustine
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
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
Saint Augustine
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Saint Augustine
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Saint Augustine
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
Love, and do what you like.
Saint Augustine
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 of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Saint Augustine
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
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.
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 do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Saint Augustine
The greatest evil is physical pain.
Saint Augustine
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Saint Augustine
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Saint Augustine
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine
There is no possible source of evil except good.
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
Saint Augustine
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Saint Augustine
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
To seek the highest good is to live well.
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
Saint Augustine
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