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Saint Augustine Inspirational Quotes (407)

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God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.
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The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.
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Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
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Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.
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This world's a bubble.
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God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.
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They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.
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Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.
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The Devil invented gambling.
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Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.
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Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.
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A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.
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Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.
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Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.
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Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.
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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.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.
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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.
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When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
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Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.
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The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
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