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"41 Saint Augustine Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 354 AD. Died: 430 AD | Philosopher |

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Book Only Page Read
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Becomes Habit Necessity Resisted
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Abstinence Complete Easier Moderation
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Page Read Travel World
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Beginning Confession Evil First
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

Although Among Impure Light
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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.

Any Appearance Cannot Does
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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.

Attained Contradictory Experience Find
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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Beauty Love Soul
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Love, and do what you like.

Like Love You
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Chastity Give
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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.

Beauty Dispense Even Gift
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Each God Loves Only
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Absence Justice Organized Robbery
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Impossible Indeed Lives Make
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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Find Given God How
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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.

Explain Him Wish Know
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Companion Patience Wisdom
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Concepts Experiences Go Here
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

Angel Bounds Cannot Guardian
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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.

About Begin Being Construct
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Help Lord Me Pure
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

Help Lord Me Pure
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Find His Imperfections Man
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Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

Chastity Give Lord
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Earth God Had Never
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Angels Changed Devils Humility
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The greatest evil is physical pain.

Evil Greatest Pain Physical
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Begin Clouds Descending First
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Also Good Live
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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.

Does Ears Eyes Feet
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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Abstinence Easier Many Moderation
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Justice Punishment 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.

Abstain Forsake Longer Sin
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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.

Count Depth Easier Far
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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?

Believe Deep Even Hidden
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Badly Because False Necessarily
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Believe May Seek Understand
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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.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.

Act Adultery Another Caught
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There is no possible source of evil except good.

Evil Except Good Possible
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Better Bring Evil Exist
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Saint Augustine Quotes & Sayings