Augustine of Hippo quotes - page 13

Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants. (Augustine of Hippo)
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity. View quote
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living. View quote
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There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn. View quote
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How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable. View quote
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A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing. View quote
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I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself. View quote
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I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them. View quote
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What do I love when I love my God? View quote
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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. View quote
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You aspire to great things Begin with little ones. (Augustine of Hippo)
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. View quote
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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. (Augustine of Hippo)
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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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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Augustine of Hippo

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Occupation: Theologian
Born: November 12, 354
Died: August 27, 430
Quotes count: 357
Wikipedia: Augustine of Hippo

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