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Things Quotes by Saint Augustine
- What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker…
- 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…
- Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so…
- In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.
- In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept…
- The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.
- 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…
- Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books…
- If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
- It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to…
- For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will…
- The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not…
- Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.
- Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they…
- Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look…
- God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
- Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not…
- I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn…
- A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.
- I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- 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