Saint Augustine Quotes

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• Cantare amantis est ... Singing belongs to one who loves." (s. 336, 1 – PL 38, 1472).
• What do I love when I love my God?
• For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts…
• Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a…
• I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.
• You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden…
• No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains…
• How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I…
• Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love…
• We speak, but it is God who teaches.
• You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted…
• How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it…
• I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being…
• There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.
• He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.
• Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.
• Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
• The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
• It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the…
• Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

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