Saint Augustine Quotes

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• Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst,…
• When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my…
• For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I…
• The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
• So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to…
• Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such…
• Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it…
• In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never…
• Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
• To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
• It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
• Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.
• I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
• Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I…
• Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever…
• Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
• The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with…
• We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn…
• He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy.…
• All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure…

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