Author Topic: ~ Saint Augustine Quotes ~ (Read 3075 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #30 on:** September 10, 2015, 01:26:42 PM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #31 on:** September 10, 2015, 01:27:21 PM »

What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.

MysteRy · « **Reply #32 on:** September 10, 2015, 01:28:16 PM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #33 on:** September 10, 2015, 01:28:58 PM »

God is more truly imagined than expressed and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

MysteRy · « **Reply #34 on:** September 10, 2015, 01:30:42 PM »

Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.

MysteRy · « **Reply #35 on:** September 10, 2015, 01:32:33 PM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #36 on:** September 10, 2015, 01:33:21 PM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #37 on:** September 10, 2015, 01:34:38 PM »

He that is kind is free though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave though he be a king.

MysteRy · « **Reply #38 on:** September 10, 2015, 01:35:27 PM »

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.

MysteRy · « **Reply #39 on:** September 10, 2015, 01:36:20 PM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #40 on:** September 10, 2015, 01:37:11 PM »

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.

MysteRy · « **Reply #41 on:** September 10, 2015, 01:39:09 PM »

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.

MysteRy · « **Reply #42 on:** September 10, 2015, 01:41:02 PM »

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

MysteRy · « **Reply #43 on:** September 10, 2015, 01:41:44 PM »

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.

MysteRy · « **Reply #44 on:** September 10, 2015, 01:43:26 PM »

When large numbers of people share their joy in common the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

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