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Good Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances,…
- Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the…
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
- The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
- To seek the highest good is to live well.
- There is no possible source of evil except good.
- The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
- Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.
- The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
- For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.
- That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left…
- The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but…
- Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.
- A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal…
- Charity is the root of all good works.
- For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt…
- Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).
- What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil…
- Was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid…
- We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle