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Life Sayings by Saint Augustine
- We should never use the truth to wound.
- Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.
- Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts…
- Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where…
- There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found…
- Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.
- 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…
- ...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even…
- The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
- Love and say it with your life.
- Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?
- When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of…
- Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
- Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the…
- Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not…
- How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I…
- Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love…
- Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy…
- Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst,…
- When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my…
- For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I…
- It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
- Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.
- I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
- Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle