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He (Scipio of Rome) did not consider that republic flourishing whose walls stand, but whose morals a...
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I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in ...
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Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. ...
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How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the pr...
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You as...
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[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wick...
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwell...
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time...
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, an...
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Belatedly I loved thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new, belatedly I loved thee. For see, thou wast w...
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Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet...
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And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to repl...
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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Tolle, lege: take up and read.
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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...
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides o...
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Pride is the beginning of sin. And what is pride but the craving for undue exaltation? And this is u...
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... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but be...
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People travel to wonder
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at the huge waves of the seas, AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you. And see, you were within and...
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we...
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians ha...
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to w...
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O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so tha...
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For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way ...
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For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you 'today' never comes to an end: and yet our 'toda...
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I recall how miserable I was, and how one day you brought me to a realization of my miserable state....
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The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Trut...
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Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, le...
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty. Suppose it steals suddenly upon me, in what state shall I le...
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I look forward, not to what lies ahead of me in this life and will surely pass away, but to my etern...
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For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since
he whom I loved, as if he should...
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Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the fre...
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No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some p...
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You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You br...
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Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and ...
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You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and ca...
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You.
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Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the B...
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A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot
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It is not reason which turns the young man from God; it is the flesh. Skepticism but provides him wi...
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and...
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Why do you object to war? Surely not, because men, who eventually die anyway, are killed in war? St
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Watch, O Lord,
with those who wake,
or watch or weep tonight,
and give your angels ch...
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Though I was retreating from the Truth, I appeared to myself to be going toward it because I did not...
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True inner righteousness does not judge according to custom but by the measure of the most perfect l...
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastin...
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you...
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Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.
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Why, then, do I set before You an ordered account of so many things? it's certainly not through me t...
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Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair ...
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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Love is the beauty of the soul
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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our ...
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first th...
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in e...
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of ...
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I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away ...
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of...
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, t...
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He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.
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There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.
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The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one...
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To whatever the soul of man turns, unless toward God, it cleaves to sorrow, even though the things o...
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Who can unravel this most snarled, knotty tangle? It is disgusting, and I do not want to look at it ...
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How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to los...
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The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered...
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Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned...
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Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, inebriate it, that I ma...
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There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was non...
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He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.
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The throne of wisdom is the soul of the righteous, that is, wisdom sits on the soul of the righteous...
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I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it lose...
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What madness, to love a man as something more than human! I lived in a fever, convulsed with tears a...
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Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold th...
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?
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Why do you object to war? Surely not, because men, who eventually die anyway, are killed in war? St
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ...
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, an...
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When I then turned toward the scriptures, they appeared to me to be quite unworthy to be compared wi...
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s...
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The Greeks think they justly honor players, because they worship the gods who demand plays; the Roma...
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17. He thought that thus fear would act as a curb on lust, and that lust being curbed would not run ...
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For why in your calamities do you complain of Christianity, unless because you desire to enjoy your ...
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see i...
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Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not...
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As Christians, our task is to make daily progress toward God. Our pilgrimage on earth is a school in...
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Our wound is serious, but the Physician is all-powerful. Does it seem to you so small a mercy that, ...
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There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also o...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Why do you object to war? Surely not, because men, who eventually die anyway, are killed in war? St
AUGUSTINE HIPPO Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
AUGUSTINE HIPPO Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, an...
AUGUSTINE HIPPO Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ...
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Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associa...
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Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou ...
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful ...
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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...
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first th...
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwell...
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the ot...
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws...
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scatt...
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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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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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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
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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 yo...
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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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The greatest evil is physical pain.
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without cea...
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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of se...
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For wher...
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s...
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long cours...
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Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all ...
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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
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They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first o...
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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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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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by other...
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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?
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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 h...
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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as ...
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The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in e...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be goo...
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Homines sunt voluntates
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO. - THE CITY OF GOD - XIV None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
AUGUSTINE The world is a great big book, of which those who never travel read only one page.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not...
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Custom is second nature.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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He who labours, prays.
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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I alr...
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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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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it...
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not po...
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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Hear the other side.
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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 h...
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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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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation...
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to...
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God is best known in not knowing him.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without cea...
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of se...
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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

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