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Saint Augustine
By faithfulness we...
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in...
Don't you believe...
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it...
Do you wish...
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of...
Complete abstinence is...
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Source:
-- Saint...
A thing is...
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken...
He that is...
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a...
I do not...
I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?
Faith is to...
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we...
Forgiveness is the...
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being...
Better to have...
Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.
Source:...
Hell was made...
Hell was made for the inquisitive.
Source: Confessions
-- Saint Augustine, (Nov...
If you believe...
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but...
Find out how...
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by...
God had one...
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Source: In...
Charity is no...
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
I asked the...
I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made...
If you would...
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased...
Grant what thou...
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
Source: In
Habit, if not...
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
I want my...
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Source: In