Saint Augustine

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

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Saint Augustine

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

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Saint Augustine

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

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Saint Augustine

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

beauty


Saint Augustine

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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Saint Augustine

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

faith


Saint Augustine

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

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Saint Augustine

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.

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Saint Augustine

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

funny


Saint Augustine

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

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Saint Augustine

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

god


Saint Augustine

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

god


Saint Augustine

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.

god


Saint Augustine

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

god


Saint Augustine

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

god


Saint Augustine

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

good


Saint Augustine

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

good


Saint Augustine

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

good


Saint Augustine

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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Saint Augustine

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

great


Saint Augustine

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

great


Saint Augustine

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

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Saint Augustine

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

great


Saint Augustine

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

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Saint Augustine

He that is jealous is not in love.

jealousy


Saint Augustine

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

jealousy


Saint Augustine

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

love


Saint Augustine

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

love


Saint Augustine

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

love


Saint Augustine

He that is jealous is not in love.

love


Saint Augustine

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

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