Saint Augustine Quotes

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• Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
• God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible…
• I was in love with loving.
• AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In…
• When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
• There is no salvation outside the church.
• Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and…
• Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.
• 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…
• Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
• Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds…
• As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when…
• It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be…
• Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
• The one who sings, prays twice.
• If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving…
• The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
• This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
• Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.
• Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.

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