Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
- Saint Augustine Quote

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
- Saint Augustine Quote

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
- Saint Augustine Quote

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
- Saint Augustine Quote

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
- Saint Augustine Quote

Give me chastity and continence, but not quite yet.
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
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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 me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.''
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine Quote

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
- Saint Augustine Quote

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
- Saint Augustine Quote

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- Saint Augustine Quote

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
- Saint Augustine Quote

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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The greatest evil is physical pain.
- Saint Augustine Quote

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
- Saint Augustine Quote

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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