Saint Augustine Quotes

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• Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not…
• Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we…
• It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments.…
• In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
• I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn…
• Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If…
• A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot
• In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
• For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set…
• Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones,…
• What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.
• Love is ever new because it never groweth old.
• Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as…
• To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.
• He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
• There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and…
• A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.
• If you understood him, it would not be God.
• Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within…
• God gives where he finds empty hands.

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