Augustine of Hippo quotes - page 12

The measure of love is to love without measuring. (Augustine of Hippo)
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist. View quote
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail. View quote
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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you. View quote
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them. View quote
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. View quote
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Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen. View quote
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place. View quote
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness. View quote
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me. View quote
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them. (Augustine of Hippo)
Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing. View quote
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What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith. View quote
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder. View quote
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It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud. View quote
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue. View quote
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There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God. View quote
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Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer. 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. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation. View quote
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For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will. View quote
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The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell. (Augustine of Hippo)
You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run. View quote
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No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face. View quote
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We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers. View quote
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We speak, but it is God who teaches. View quote
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Augustine of Hippo

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Photo: Effems, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: Theologian
Born: November 12, 354
Died: August 27, 430
Quotes count: 357
Wikipedia: Augustine of Hippo

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