Augustine of Hippo quotes - page 4

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. (Augustine of Hippo)
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. View quote
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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. View quote
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. View quote
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. View quote
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The greatest evil is physical pain. View quote
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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. View quote
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Love the sinner and hate the sin. View quote
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The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls. View quote
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Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you. View quote
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The Heavenly City outshines Rome, beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity. (Augustine of Hippo)
Anger is a weed; hate is the tree. View quote
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So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you. View quote
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God became man so that man might become God. View quote
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Rome has spoken; the case is concluded. View quote
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Charity is the root of all good works. View quote
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Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven. View quote
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Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs. View quote
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So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children. View quote
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In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn. View quote
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For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared. (Augustine of Hippo)
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God. View quote
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future. View quote
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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. View quote
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In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it. View quote
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