Saint Augustine Quotes

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• God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his…
• Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one…
• Beauty is the brilliance of truth.
• Without the Spirit we can neither love God nor keep His commandments.
• Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?
• Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a…
• Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.
• Was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid…
• What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker…
• Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will…
• To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble…
• The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.
• The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.
• Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that…
• Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.
• Make friends with angels.
• Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.
• God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
• For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.
• We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are…

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