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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

Poetry is the Devil's wine. — Saint Augustine

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

Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man's quest to save himself? To cure himself? ... Or, to "be" himself? — Milkweed L. Augustine

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

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

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

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

If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell. — Saint Augustine

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

He didn't get it. That's exactly why I needed my Maker's Mark. You can't throw my life into turmoil, and then screw me out of my bourbon too. — Donna Augustine

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

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's
glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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

The world's verdict is conclusive. — Saint Augustine

Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave. — Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne

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

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame. — Saint Augustine

Hence we should all make St. Augustine's prayer our own: "Lord, here cut, here burn and spare me not, but spare me in eternity! — Alfonso Maria De Liguori

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life. — Saint Augustine

When men do what is displeasing to God, they perform their own will, not God's. — Augustine Of Hippo

We weren't a couple, but friends didn't spoon every night. Fate and I were officially in relationship-no-man's-land. — Donna Augustine

Salvation is God's way of making us real people. — Saint Augustine

What's worse than dead? Is there a new ranking system in the Wilds I'm unaware of? — Donna Augustine

Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb. — Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped — Colin S. Smith

I'm not saying therapy is bad, it's just too much work for me. I'm more about embracing my broken self for all that she can be. — Donna Augustine

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

Fear isn't always bad. Sometimes it's the lighthouse on the shore telling you to steer out of the storm. Don't — Donna Augustine

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy. — Saint Augustine

Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love, and the future to God's providence. — Augustine Of Hippo

Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty? — Saint Augustine

This world's a bubble. — Saint Augustine

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine

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

Oh, my god, you moron, she's one of us. She's a Keeper! Humans don't spit bullets back out! I gotta go get Cormac. This isn't good. — Donna Augustine

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls . — Saint Augustine

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace. — Saint Augustine

I'm the product of my environment. And it's one nasty fucking world out there. — Donna Augustine

We, on the other hand, are most certainly here, in this house, eating this very tasty bacon. And as long as there's bacon, shit just ain't that bad. — Donna Augustine

No, I might not know what's coming, but I know where you're going. — Donna Augustine

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state. — Saint Augustine

He who falls, falls by his own will; and he who stands, stands by God's will. — Augustine Of Hippo

People say karma's a bitch. Personally, I really don't think I'm that bad. — Donna Augustine

If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men. — Saint Augustine

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters. — Norman Ralph Augustine

We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future. — Saint Augustine

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God's debtor. — Saint Augustine

It's easy to get a loan unless you need it. — Norman Ralph Augustine

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty. — Saint Augustine

Singing is a lover's thing. — Saint Augustine

God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too! — Saint Augustine

Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts. — Saint Augustine

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

Poetry is devil's wine. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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