Saint Augustine Quotes

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• What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at…
• I have said before, and shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.
• Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
• Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they…
• Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look…
• Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should…
• Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!
• Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
• Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
• Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold…
• For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you 'today' never comes to an end: and yet our 'today' does come to an end…
• Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no…
• God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
• Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer
• To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
• God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
• God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
• Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the…
• Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness
• We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

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