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Saint Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
- What do you possess if you possess not God?
- This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.
- 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.…
- Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul…
- 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…
- You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.
- The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him, though otherwise than…
- They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. .…
- Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those…
- There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
- The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book…
- Patience is the companion of wisdom. --Saint Augustine
- O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. Saint Augustine
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