“It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.”
Men
“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.”
ExperienceAll Quotes by Saint Augustine
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
Faith“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”
Art“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.”
God“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“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
God“Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
Faith“The purpose of all wars, is peace.”
Peace“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?”
Government“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”
God“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.”
Great“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“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“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
Happiness“O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.”
Funny“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
Beauty“He that is jealous is not in love.”
Jealousy“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
Beauty“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“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”
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