Saint Augustine Quotes

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• Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
• We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.
• All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.
• No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.
• In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.
• In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.
• Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.
• For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in…
• No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.
• There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try…
• The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want…
• The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.
• People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast…
• I believe in order to understand
• You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't…
• Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.
• Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.
• There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself…
• True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth...…
• Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean, the course of…

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