Augustine of Hippo quotes - page 9

The one who sings, prays twice. (Augustine of Hippo)
I believe in order to understand. View quote
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This world's a bubble. View quote
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Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love. View quote
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Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr. View quote
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. View quote
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. View quote
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. View quote
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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. View quote
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. View quote
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That God, though, worships human beings, it's enough to frighten hearers out of their wits, because people are not in the habit of saying that God worships human beings - in that special sense -but that human beings worship God. (Augustine of Hippo)
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour. View quote
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The argument is at an end. View quote
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You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love. View quote
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For sometimes Christ speaks in the name of the Head alone ... sometimes in the name of His body. View quote
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And so the passion of Christ is not in Christ alone; and yet the passion of Christ is in Christ alone. View quote
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This man emphasizes how high above you Christ has been lifted up; Christ, though, says how low he came down to you. View quote
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He says this for me, for thee, for this other man. View quote
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You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. View quote
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Tell me which of the righteous of that time claimed an altar for himself? View quote
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No greater gift could God bestow on men than to give them as their Head His Word. (Augustine of Hippo)
The full measure of the Passion will not be attained until the end of the world. View quote
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The Father willed that these two, the God Christ and the Church, should be one man. View quote
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For evil has no positive nature; but the loss of good has received the name "evil.”. View quote
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All those of you who rejoice in peace, now it is time to judge the truth. View quote
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