Saint Augustine Quotes

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• He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.
• Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
• Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
• O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it…
• What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course…
• Anger is a weed; hate is a tree
• You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.
• I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
• By and by never comes.
• When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.
• Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to…
• For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence…
• In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for…
• The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.
• I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
• Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have…
• Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.
• What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.
• The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
• Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin,…

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