Saint Augustine Quotes

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• Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy…
• The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
• Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
• The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
• I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then…
• You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
• You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and…
• The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it…
• The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the…
• Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.
• Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard…
• Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is…
• Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to…
• Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people…
• If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with…
• He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
• Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend…
• Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.
• For in our hope we are saved.
• For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

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