Saint Augustine Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Devil Quotes

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

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I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.

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When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

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The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

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There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

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Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

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For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

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Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

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Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.

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The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

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I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

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If you comprehend, it is not God.

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Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

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A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.

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Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

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We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.

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The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.

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By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

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Whoever possesses God is happy.

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