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Saint Augustine

24 quotes

Selected quotes · 24
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint AugustineHappiness
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Saint AugustineFaith
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint AugustineFaith
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint AugustineAction
05
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Saint AugustinePhilosophy
06
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint AugustineFaith
07
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
Saint AugustineGrowth
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
Saint AugustineTime
09
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint AugustineFaith
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint AugustineCreativity
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God is best known in not knowing him.
Saint AugustineSuccess
12
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Saint AugustineLife
13
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Saint AugustineGrowth
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
Saint AugustineFaith
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Saint AugustineFriendship
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint AugustineFriendship
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint AugustineNature
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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint AugustineWisdom
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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.
Saint AugustineLife
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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint AugustineFaith
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint AugustineFaith
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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.
Saint AugustineTime
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
Saint AugustineAction
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
Saint AugustineCreativity