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