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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer (Saint Augustine Quotes)
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it (Saint Augustine Quotes)
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain (Saint Augustine Quotes)
We cannot pass our guardian angel’s bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs (Saint Augustine Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? (Saint Augustine Quotes)
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood (Saint Augustine Quotes)
The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page (Saint Augustine Quotes)
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity (Saint Augustine Quotes)
So give to the poor; I’m begging you, I’m warning you, I’m commanding you, I’m ordering you (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times (Saint Augustine Quotes)
You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life (Saint Augustine Quotes)
So if you can manage it, you shouldn’t touch your partner, except for the sake of having children (Saint Augustine Quotes)
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer? (Saint Augustine Quotes)
The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away (Saint Augustine Quotes)
He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin (Saint Augustine Quotes)
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds (Saint Augustine Quotes)
I have said before, and shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue (Saint Augustine Quotes)
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness (Saint Augustine Quotes)
We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls (Saint Augustine Quotes)
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love (Saint Augustine Quotes)
I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love (Saint Augustine Quotes)
A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee (Saint Augustine Quotes)