Saint Augustine Quotes, God Quotes, Work Quotes

Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

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O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

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So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you.

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There is no possible source of evil except good.

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Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.

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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

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The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

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The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

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All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

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You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

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Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

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A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

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Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

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The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

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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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Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

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