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.
• It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
• 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…
• The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
• 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.
• Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
• 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…
• Love is the beauty of the soul.
• 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.
• Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
• He that is jealous is not in love.
• Patience is the companion of wisdom.
• O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
• God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
• O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
• Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
• 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…
• 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…
• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

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