Tag: Saint Augustine
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Saint Augustine
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine
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We cannot pass our guardian angel’s bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Saint Augustine
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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.
Saint Augustine
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
Saint Augustine
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine
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Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
Saint Augustine
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine
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Don’t you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Saint Augustine
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Saint Augustine