Saint Augustine Quotes, Christian Quotes, Good Life Quotes

What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.

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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

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Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself.

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He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.

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Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

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Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

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Singing is a lover's thing.

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His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

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So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.

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Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

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God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

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Custom is second nature.

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What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker men are, the more they are troubled by such matters. Their weakness stems from a desire to appear learned, not with a knowledge of things, by which we are edified, but with a knowledge of signs, by which it is difficult not to be puffed up in some way; even a knowledge of things often makes people boastful, unless their necks are held down by the Lord's yoke.

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This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

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The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

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When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.

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

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