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Very Quotes by Saint Augustine
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto…
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
- The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
- 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…
- The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want…
- Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness…
- And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though…
- 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…
- What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to…
- The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but…
- Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds…
- 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.…
- God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
- In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways…
- They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were…
- The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every…
- 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…
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- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
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