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Man Quotes by Saint Augustine
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
- Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
- Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some…
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
- 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…
- Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?
- Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is…
- Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of…
- Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation…
- There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.
- It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism;…
- Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.
- When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
- Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and…
- It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral…
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle