Saint Augustine Quotes

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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.
• What do you possess if you possess not God?
• This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.
• The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life.…
• Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul…
• The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it…
• You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.
• He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father.
• Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.
• If you don't believe it you won't understand it.
• What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil…
• In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles…
• We should never use the truth to wound.
• Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past…
• Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.
• Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts…
• Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when…
• If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee,…
• Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where…
• Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to…

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