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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

Faith is to believe that which you do not yet see; and the reward of this faith is to see that which you believe. - Saint Augustine of Hippo P.g64 — Rhonda Byrne

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 — Augustine Of Hippo

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 sake
is 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