Saint Augustine Quotes, Mother Quotes, Father Quotes

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

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Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.

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Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

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Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

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God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.

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

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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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The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

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The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.

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In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.

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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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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

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Singing is a lover's thing.

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There is no possible source of evil except good.

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Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

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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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And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?

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It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.

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Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down to the things of earth here below. He points out that these frail and mortal objects could not be endowed with a beauty so immaculate and so exquisitely wrought, did they not issue from the Divinity which endlessly prevades with its invisible and unchanging beauty all things.

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Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

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