Saint Augustine Quotes

You are what you love.

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We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

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They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

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Only He who made man makes man happy.

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If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

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For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

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Truth is not private property.

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It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

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Custom is second nature.

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You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

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It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

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Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.

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Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

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When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

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The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

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There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

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