Augustine of Hippo quotes - page 13

It's not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds. (Augustine of Hippo)
You aspire to great things Begin with little ones. View quote
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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you. View quote
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God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined. View quote
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A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world, mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering. View quote
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall? View quote
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While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear. View quote
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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. View quote
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Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big. View quote
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness. View quote
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel. (Augustine of Hippo)
Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls. View quote
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If you understood him, it would not be God. View quote
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For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more. View quote
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Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give. View quote
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Poetry is devil's wine. View quote
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Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law. View quote
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake. View quote
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The world's verdict is conclusive. View quote
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Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by. View quote
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I asked the whole frame of the world about my God and he answered, I am not He, but He made me. (Augustine of Hippo)
He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother. View quote
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Hell was made for the inquisitive. View quote
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Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves. View quote
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Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men. View quote
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