Saint Augustine Quotes

One can't reach the Truth but through Love.

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For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.

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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

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When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?

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...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

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By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].

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And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God; for He is the light, the melody, the fragrance, the food, the embracement of my inner self - there where is a brillance that space cannot contain, a sound that time cannot carry away, a perfume that no breeze disperses, a taste undimisnished by eating, a clinging together that no saiety will sunder. This is what I love when I love my God.

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Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.

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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

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It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.

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There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.

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If you comprehend, it is not God.

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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

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What can be hoped for which is not believed?

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Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.

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Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

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If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.

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No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

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Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?

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You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

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