Saint Augustine Quotes

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• Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
• Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations…
• God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
• What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure…
• I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto…
• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
• In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
• What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I…
• Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
• The greatest evil is physical pain.
• He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
• There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
• Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
• Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances,…
• Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
• Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
• This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
• Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
• He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
• Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the…

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