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May Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
- 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…
- Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but…
- 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…
- On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what…
- The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
- 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…
- What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down…
- For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.
- As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world,…
- The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it…
- 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…
- What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to…
- 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…
- By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.
- O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can…
- Believe that you may understand,
- This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.
- The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it…
- Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt