Augustine of Hippo quotes - page 4

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself. (Augustine of Hippo)
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor. View quote
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I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so. View quote
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The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven. View quote
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Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son. View quote
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Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not. View quote
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An evil person harms themselves before harming others. View quote
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. View quote
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. View quote
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My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ. View quote
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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. (Augustine of Hippo)
Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: ‘Forgive us our debts,' because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness. View quote
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. View quote
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. View quote
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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. (Augustine of Hippo)
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. View quote
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Anger is a weed; hate is the tree. 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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