27 Quotations by Saint Augustine
- 1. Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses ...
- 2. Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbou ...
- 3. Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Th ...
- 4. Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first th ...
- 5. Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
- 6. For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?
- 7. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- 8. He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
- 9. Hear the other side.
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- 10. I was in love with loving.
- 11. If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the ot ...
- 12. If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For wher ...
- 13. My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your wo ...
- 14. Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
- 15. O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
- 16. Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation ...
- 17. Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but ...
- 18. Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- 19. The argument is at an end.
- 20. The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
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