Saint Augustine Quotes, Pride Quotes, Proud Quotes

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

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Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

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Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

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There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

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If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

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Understanding is the reward of faith.

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In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

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If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

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

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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

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Hell was made for the inquisitive.

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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

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You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

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The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

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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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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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My weight is my love.

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