Quotes by St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo

Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher

Lived from: 354 - 430

Category: Theologians and clergy | Philosophers

Born: 14 november 354 Died: 29 august 430

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  • I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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  • If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
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  • If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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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.
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  • It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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  • Love is the beauty of the soul.
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  • Love, and do what you like.
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  • Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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  • My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
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  • No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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  • O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
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  • Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
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  • Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
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  • Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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  • Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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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.
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  • The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
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  • This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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  • 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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  • To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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