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No doubt, then, that a free curiosity has more force in our learning these things, than a frightful enforcement.
— Augustine Of Hippo
I have said before, and shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.
— 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
Your wishes are bad, when you desire that one whom you hate or fear should be in such a condition that you can conquer him.
— Augustine Of Hippo
My questioning was my attentive spirit,and their reply, their beauty. — Augustine Of Hippo
Whither do I call Thee, since I am in Thee? or whence canst Thou enter into
— Augustine Of Hippo
Our hearts were made for You, O Lord, and they are restless until they rest in you." -St. Augustine of Hippo
— Augustine Of Hippo
You know how stupid and weak I am: teach me and heal me.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves
— Augustine Of Hippo
He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
— Augustine Of Hippo
My weight is my love.
— Augustine Of Hippo
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
The whole of history since the ascension of Jesus into heaven is concerned with one work only: the building and perfecting of this City of God.
— 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
Do not abandon what You have begun in me, but go on to perfect all that remains unfinished.
— Augustine Of Hippo
I cannot grasp all that I am.
— Augustine Of Hippo
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
He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.
— Augustine Of Hippo
There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.
— Augustine Of Hippo
The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!
— Augustine Of Hippo
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
— Augustine Of Hippo
For every man, however laudably he lives, yet yields in some points to the lust of the flesh.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time ...
— Augustine Of Hippo
Thy purpose unchanged; receivest again what Thou findest, yet didst never lose; never in need, yet rejoicing in gains;
— Augustine Of Hippo
Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.
— Augustine Of Hippo
You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Divides into three classes,things to be enjoyed, things to be used, and things which use and enjoy. — Augustine Of Hippo
The past times that you think were good, are good because they are not yours here and now.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Clearly, it is a happier lot to be the slave of a man than of a lust:
— Augustine Of Hippo
Homer invented these fictions and attributed human powers to the gods; I wish he had attributed divine powers to us
— Augustine Of Hippo
What you want to ignite in others must first burn in yourself
— Augustine Of Hippo
Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.
— Augustine Of Hippo
See, heaven and earth exist, they cry aloud that they are made, for they suffer change and variation.
— Augustine Of Hippo
A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens.
— Augustine Of Hippo
For the human race is, more than any other species, at once social by nature and quarrelsome by perversion.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Augustine Of Hippo
For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.
— Augustine Of Hippo
He who created you without you will not justify you without you.
— Augustine Of Hippo
No one will make a good end to the life into which he is born unless he is born again before he ends it.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.
— Augustine Of Hippo
There can only be two basic loves ... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.
— Augustine Of Hippo
I was still unteachable, being inflated with the novelty of heresy.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
— Augustine Of Hippo
You have stricken my heart with your word and I have loved you.
— Augustine Of Hippo
In faith, unity, in doubtful matters, liberty, in all things charity.
— Augustine Of Hippo
You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Love is the beauty of the soul
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It is no less impossible for us not to taste as bitter the death of those whose life for us was such a source of sweetness.
— Augustine Of Hippo
When men do what is displeasing to God, they perform their own will, not God's.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Hence it is not the case that every bad man will become good, but no one will be good who was not bad originally. Yet
— Augustine Of Hippo
Book I. Containing a General View of the Subjects Treated in Holy Scripture.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Crucified Christ, when He, mindful of mercy, said, Father,
— 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
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
An unjust law is no law at all.
— Augustine Of Hippo
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
The only object which ought to be enjoyed is the triune God, who is our highest good and our true happiness.
— Augustine Of Hippo
This disease of curiosity.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Why are you relying on yourself, only to find yourself unreliable?
— Augustine Of Hippo
His own sake and the love of our neighbor for God's sakeis the fulfillment and the end of all Scripture. — Augustine Of Hippo
i understand that i understand
— Augustine Of Hippo
You raise us upright.
— 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 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
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
Let him love to find You while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find You.
— Augustine Of Hippo
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
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
He then goes on to show that love--the love of God for
— Augustine Of Hippo
The end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest.
— Augustine Of Hippo
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
— Augustine Of Hippo
The person who knows the truth knows it, and he who knows it knows eternity. Love knows it.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love, and the future to God's providence.
— Augustine Of Hippo
But no one doth well against his will, even though what he doth, be well.
— Augustine Of Hippo
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.
— Augustine Of Hippo
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
— Augustine Of Hippo
My sin grew sleek on my excesses.
— Augustine Of Hippo
The weakness then of infant limbs, not its will, is its innocence.
— Augustine Of Hippo
For a prohibition always increases an illicit desire so long as the love of and joy in holiness is too weak to conquer the inclination to sin ...
— Augustine Of Hippo
To confess, then, is to praise and glorify God; it is an exercise in self-knowledge and true humility in the atmosphere of grace and reconciliation.
— Augustine Of Hippo
But my sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in [God] but in myself and his other creatures
— Augustine Of Hippo
The nature of God can never and nowhere be deficient in anything, while things made out of nothing can be deficient.
— Augustine Of Hippo
There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will.(Against Fortunatus) — Augustine Of Hippo
We speak, but it is God who teaches.
— Augustine Of Hippo
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
— Augustine Of Hippo
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
Love, then do as you like.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies?
— Augustine Of Hippo
Place your hopes in the man from whom you do not inherit
— Augustine Of Hippo