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Men Quotes by Saint Augustine
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has…
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at…
- 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…
- When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.
- 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.
- 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…
- Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness…
- 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…
- What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the Lord? These men…
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