Saint Augustine Quotes, Desire Quotes, Habit Quotes

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

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One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.

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If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

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There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

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I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

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War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

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O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread.

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The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.

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The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

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How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

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The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.

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Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

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The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

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Salvation is God's way of making us real people.

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God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

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God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

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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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In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

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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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That one woman is both mother and virgin, not in spirit only but even in body. In spirit she is mother, not of our head, who is our Savior himself-of whom all, even she herself, are rightly called children of the bridegroom-but plainly she is the mother of us who are his members, because by love she has cooperated so that the faithful, who are the members of that head, might be born in the Church. In body, indeed, she is the Mother of that very head.

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