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Things Quotes by Saint Augustine
- You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.
- I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
- The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
- Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?
- Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with…
- It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the…
- Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.
- 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,…
- 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…
- Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it…
- In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me…
- Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who…
- By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.
- There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was…
- It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem…
- 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…
- For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt…
- God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless…
- 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…
- If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee,…
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
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- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon