QUOTES by Saint Augustine
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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.
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Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
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Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."
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...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even though boys' games are much the same, they are punished for them by their elders. No one pities either the boys or the men, though surely we deserve pity, for I cannot believe that a good judge would approve of the beatings I received as a boy on the ground that my games delayed my progress in studying subjects which would enable me to play a less creditable game later in life.
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Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.
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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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And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
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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?
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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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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
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There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.
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Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."
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We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.
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You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.
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When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
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O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by.
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