Saint Augustine Quotes, Heart Quotes, Eye Quotes

A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.

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What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

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It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.

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A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

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What can be hoped for which is not believed?

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Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.

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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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Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

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A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words

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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

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

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Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

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Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.

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God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

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Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

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For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

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I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

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