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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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

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Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

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Between urine and filth we are born.

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Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .

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People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

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Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

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Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

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A marriage without children is the world without the sun.

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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

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Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

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A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by Whom the world itself was made; for he is warned by the precept of the apostle and faithfully hears what has been said, 'Beware that no one deceive you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the elements of the world'

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Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

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Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.

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