Saint Augustine Quotes

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• In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept…
• Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
• Love and do as you will.
• That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you…
• Whole prayer is nothing but love.
• If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are…
• They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. .…
• ...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even…
• The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall…
• The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
• Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.
• Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.
• Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.
• If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.
• The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.
• In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.
• Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest,…
• He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which…
• God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
• Every infinity... is made finite to God.

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