Augustine of Hippo quotes - page 14

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake. (Augustine of Hippo)
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. View quote
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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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Order your soul reduce your wants live in charity associate in Christian community obey the laws trust in Providence. View quote
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People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment. View quote
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The playthings of our elders are called business. (Augustine of Hippo)
Quaerite, Donatistae, si nescitis, quaerite ab Ierusalem per terrena itinera in circuitu usque in Illyricum quot mansiones sint: si tot Ecclesias computemus, dicite quemadmodum per Africanas contentiones perire potuerunt. Ad Corinthios, ad Ephesios, ad Philippenses, ad Thessalonicenses, ad Colossenses vos solas Apostoli epistulas in lectione, nos autem et epistulas in lectione ac fide et ipsas Ecclesias in communione retinemus. PL 43, 414. View quote
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Who dismisses his adulterous wife and marries another woman, whereas his first wife still lives, remains perpetually in the state of adultery. Such a man does not any efficacious penance while he refuses to abandon the new wife. If he is a catechumen, he cannot be admitted to baptism, because his will remains rooted in the evil. If he is a (baptized) penitent, he cannot receive the (ecclesiastical) reconciliation as long as he does not break with his bad attitude. View quote
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Ego vero Evangelio non crederem, nisi me catholicae Ecclesiae commoveret auctoritas. (chapter 5) View quote
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you. View quote
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities. View quote
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Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves. View quote
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What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. View quote
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In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another. View quote
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Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable? View quote
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It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral in her virginity, brought him forth, made visible for us, by whom, when he was invisible, she too was created. A Virgin conceiving, a Virgin bearing, a Virgin pregnant, a Virgin bringing forth, a Virgin perpetual. Why do you wonder at this, O man? (Augustine of Hippo)
And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee? View quote
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Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying. View quote
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He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven. View quote
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Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy. 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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