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Saint Augustine [354-430] Roman

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An early Christian theologian and philosopher[8] whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. He was the bishop of Hippo Regius (modern-day Annaba, Algeria), located in Numidia (Roman province of Africa). He is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers in Western Christianity for his writings in the Patristic Era. Among his most important works are The City of God and Confessions.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.	Travel	101
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.	Faith	102
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.	Faith, God, Work	103
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.	Success	104
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.	Men	105
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.	Good, Time	106
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.		107
Punishment is justice for the unjust.	Legal	108
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.	Anger, Fear, Jealousy, Love	109
Patience is the companion of wisdom.	Patience, Wisdom	110
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.	God	111
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.	Easter, God	112
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?	Government	113
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.	God	114
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.	Men	115
The purpose of all wars, is peace.	Peace	116
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.		117
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	118
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.		119
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.		120
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.		121
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.	Men, Sympathy	122
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.	Nature	123
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.		124
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.		125
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	126
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.		201
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.		202
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.	God, Good	203
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.		204
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.		205
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.		206
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.		207
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.		208
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.		209
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.		210
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	211
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.	Happiness	212
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.	Time	213
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.	Experience	214
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.	Funny	215
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.	Experience	216
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.		217
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.		218
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.		219
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.	Forgiveness	220
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.		221
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.	Friendship	222
The greatest evil is physical pain.	Medical	223
Love is the beauty of the soul.	Beauty, Love	224
Love, and do what you like.		225
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.		226
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.		301
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.		302
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.		303
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.		304
He that is jealous is not in love.	Jealousy	305
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.	Beauty	306
To seek the highest good is to live well.		307
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.		308
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.	Religion	309
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.	Intelligence	310
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?		311
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?		312
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.	Wisdom	313
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.		314
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.		315
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.		316
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.	Life	317
God is best known in not knowing him.	God	318
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.		319
This world's a bubble.		320
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.		321
Hear the other side.		322
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.		323
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.		324
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.	Legal	325
There is no possible source of evil except good.		326
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.		401
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.		402
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?		403
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.		404
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.		405
Custom is second nature.		406
He who labours, prays.		407
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.	God	408
The verdict of the world is conclusive.		409
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.		410
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.		411

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