Saint Augustine Quotes

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• Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
• It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to…
• Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves
• Love and say it with your life.
• You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so…
• He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.
• Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches…
• Give what You command and command what You will.
• There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither love nor hope without faith.
• The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every…
• Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.
• Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.
• He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.
• Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those…
• Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?
• When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of…
• None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
• It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.
• All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.
• For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will…

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