Saint Augustine Quotes, Two Quotes, World Quotes

Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

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Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

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In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.

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The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

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He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.

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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

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They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

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Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

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My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

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Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

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Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

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You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

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None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

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It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

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Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

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There is no possible source of evil except good.

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It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.

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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

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