Saint Augustine Quotes

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• In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways…
• Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is…
• Our heart is restless until it rests in You.
• When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with…
• Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down…
• Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books…
• Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.
• It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to…
• A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.
• Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.
• We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.
• The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it?
• Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.
• If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
• Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of…
• They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were…
• He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally…
• The verdict of the world is conclusive.
• He who labours, prays.
• I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

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