St. Augustine
Quotes by St. Augustine
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What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
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A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of reason make faith a necessity.
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We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.
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If you believe in the Gospel what you like, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Thou hast created us for thyself, and our heart cannot be quieted till it may find repose in thee.
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It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds and that is faithful to what it finds.
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Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart of man is restless until it finds its rest in Thee.
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The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it?
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Necessity has no law.
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Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights 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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The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
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