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Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good?


Augustine of Hippo

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SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long cours...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first o...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Punishment is justice for the unjust.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by other...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO 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 OF HIPPO Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of h...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO 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.
AUGUSTINE Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Custom is second nature.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The verdict of the world is conclusive.
SAINT AUGUSTINE He who labours, prays.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
SAINT AUGUSTINE If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I alr...
SAINT AUGUSTINE I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it...
SAINT AUGUSTINE No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
SAINT AUGUSTINE Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
SAINT AUGUSTINE If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
SAINT AUGUSTINE We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
SAINT AUGUSTINE There is no possible source of evil except good.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not po...
SAINT AUGUSTINE A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Hear the other side.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of h...
SAINT AUGUSTINE To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation...
SAINT AUGUSTINE The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to...
SAINT AUGUSTINE God is best known in not knowing him.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without cea...
SAINT AUGUSTINE My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of se...
SAINT AUGUSTINE To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE