Saint Augustine Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Order Quotes

Put no faith in salvation through the political order.

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For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets.

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You are what you love.

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Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

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If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

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And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

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If you understood him, it would not be God.

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Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.

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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

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Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

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Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

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We should never use the truth to wound.

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What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

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Attract them by the way you live.

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What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

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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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Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.

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Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.

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