Saint Augustine Quotes

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• You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house…
• It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be…
• The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not…
• War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.
• Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride…
• When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.
• Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .
• A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and…
• Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.
• There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.
• The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty…
• A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through…
• Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)
• Tolle, lege: take up and read.
• Love God, and do what you like.
• God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.
• There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
• Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.
• The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book…
• Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

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