Saint Augustine Quotes

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• To sing is to pray twice. Catholic
• Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. Became
• Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself… Alone
• There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found… All
• God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves. Action
• It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up. Better
• Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service. Acquired
• Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive. Catholic
• Only He who made man makes man happy. Catholic
• Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself. Catholic
• Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not… Appear
• Doubt is but another element of faith. Another Element
• Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking. Ambulando
• Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens. Anger
• God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us. Deceiver
• An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the… Alexander
• All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself. All
• Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal. Enslaved
• Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen. Business
• Never judge a philosophy by its abuse. Abuse

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