Saint Augustine Quotes

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• Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
• Custom is second nature.
• Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but…
• Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
• To seek the highest good is to live well.
• No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
• The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
• It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
• To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
• We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
• We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
• The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is…
• I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
• If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
• There is no possible source of evil except good.
• This world's a bubble.
• My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was…
• Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are…
• Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are…
• The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

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