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Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices ... sing also with your conduct. — Saint Augustine

No doubt, then, that a free curiosity has more force in our learning these things, than a frightful enforcement. — Augustine Of Hippo

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19) — Augustine Of Hippo

Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud. — Saint Augustine

You know how stupid and weak I am: teach me and heal me. — Augustine Of Hippo

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake. — Augustine Of Hippo

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds. — Saint Augustine

Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself. — Saint Augustine

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love ... I sought what I might love, in love with loving. — Augustine Of Hippo

Only one possibility remains: the movement by which the will turns from enjoying the Creator to enjoying his creatures belongs to the will itself. — Augustine Of Hippo

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself? — Augustine Of Hippo

If you understood him, it would not be God. — Augustine Of Hippo

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church. — Saint Augustine

Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's. — Saint Augustine

Late have I loved you, Beauty so very ancient and so ever new. Late I have loved you! You were within, but I was without. — Augustine Of Hippo

You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life. — Saint Augustine

Beauty is the brilliance of truth. — Saint Augustine

In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails. — Saint Augustine

Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied. — Saint Augustine

The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them. — Saint Augustine

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer? — Saint Augustine

Love can be angry ... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens. — Saint Augustine

By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual. — Saint Augustine

There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither love nor hope without faith. — Saint Augustine

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.' — Saint Augustine

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open. — Saint Augustine

Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself. — Saint Augustine

I just meant touching me might feel uncomfortable. It's a little like chewing on tin foil. Feels unpleasant but isn't really a problem. — Donna Augustine

Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline. — Saint Augustine

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society. — Saint Augustine

Thus it is that love is not without hope, hope is not without love, and neither hope nor love are without faith. — Augustine Of Hippo

This disease of curiosity. — Augustine Of Hippo

We will never move out of the present and into the future with all God has planned for us if we cling to dwell in the past. — Sue Augustine

An unjust law is no law at all. — Augustine Of Hippo

The only object which ought to be enjoyed is the triune God, who is our highest good and our true happiness. — Augustine Of Hippo

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace. — Saint Augustine

Why, therefore, do we delay to abandon our hopes of this world, and give ourselves wholly to seek after God and the blessed life? But — Augustine Of Hippo

Love, then do as you like. — Augustine Of Hippo

Without the Spirit we can neither love God nor keep His commandments. — Saint Augustine

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base. — Norman Ralph Augustine

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil. — Saint Augustine

We speak, but it is God who teaches. — Augustine Of Hippo

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance. — Saint Augustine

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — Augustine Of Hippo

Is this true or only clever? — Augustine Birrell

Beware of bad Catholics. — Saint Augustine

Ah, God, my God, what wretchedness I suffered in that world, and how I trifled with!
-St. Augustine on school — Augustine Of Hippo

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. — Augustine Of Hippo

For no one should consider anything his own, except perhaps a lie, since all truth is from Him who said, I am the truth. — Augustine Of Hippo

The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters. — Saint Augustine

Being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? — Augustine Of Hippo

Poetry is devil's wine. — Saint Augustine

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. — Saint Augustine

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money. — Norman Ralph Augustine

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't. — Saint Augustine

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave. — Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne

Place your hopes in the man from whom you do not inherit — Augustine Of Hippo

The soul is not moved to abandon higher things and love inferior things unless it wills to do so. — Augustine Of Hippo

The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it? — Saint Augustine

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves. — Saint Augustine

For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity. — Augustine Of Hippo

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation. — Augustine Of Hippo

Sometimes I'm amazed I've made it this far in life without ever being punched in the face. — Donna Augustine

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine

One can't reach the Truth but trough Love. — Saint Augustine

I'm making friends. You wouldn't know anything about that. — Donna Augustine

I believe in order to understand — Saint Augustine

Wait, Cat," I say, reaching blindly for her arm, as if I could possibly make this anymore awkward. (Hint: apparently, I can.) — L.M. Augustine

Let him love to find You while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find You. — Augustine Of Hippo

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things. — Saint Augustine

It is a higher glory ... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war. — Augustine Of Hippo

He needed to stop acting like we were more than friends or clue me in on what he was up to. "I'm — Donna Augustine

The one who sings, prays twice. — Saint Augustine

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth. — Saint Augustine

Salvator ambulado. (It is solved by walking.) — Augustine Of Hippo

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. — Augustine Of Hippo

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. — Saint Augustine

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed. — Saint Augustine

He then goes on to show that love--the love of God for — Augustine Of Hippo

Resist the dimples. Do not look at the dimples. They are defects. Shit, must ignore the dents. — Donna Augustine

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection. — Saint Augustine

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins. — Anatole France

His own sake and the love of our neighbor for God's sake
is the fulfillment and the end of all Scripture. — Augustine Of Hippo

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity. — Saint Augustine

Libraries are not made; they grow. — Augustine Birrell

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. — Norman Ralph Augustine

He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade. — Saint Augustine

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me? — Saint Augustine

i understand that i understand — Augustine Of Hippo

Humility is first, second and third in Christianity. — Saint Augustine

Why are you relying on yourself, only to find yourself unreliable? — Augustine Of Hippo

Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D. — Norman Ralph Augustine

You raise us upright. — Augustine Of Hippo

The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself. — Saint Augustine

Hell was made for the inquisitive. — Saint Augustine

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it. — Saint Augustine

Crucified Christ, when He, mindful of mercy, said, Father, — Augustine Of Hippo

The Trinity, one God, of whom are all things, through whom are all things, in whom are all things. [1723] — Augustine Of Hippo

O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest. — Augustine Of Hippo

Every where the greater joy is ushered in by the greater pain. — Augustine Of Hippo