Saint Augustine Quotes

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• By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
• God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
• In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
• Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some…
• A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
• The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
• Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
• We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
• Punishment is justice for the unjust.
• The purpose of all wars, is peace.
• It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
• God is best known in not knowing him.
• Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
• I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
• The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
• The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
• If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what…
• Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
• The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

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