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Out Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
- Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
- 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…
- We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was…
- 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…
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are…
- If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
- Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have…
- God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible…
- It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be…
- Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).
- The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life.…
- 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…
- Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If…
- He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which…
- Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down…
- What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at…
- Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If…
- Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as…
- You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden…
- 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…
- 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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