Author Topic: ~ Saint Augustine Quotes ~  (Read 3043 times)

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Saint Augustine Quotes ~
« Reply #45 on: September 10, 2015, 01:45:23 PM »
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.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Saint Augustine Quotes ~
« Reply #46 on: September 10, 2015, 01:45:52 PM »
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.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Saint Augustine Quotes ~
« Reply #47 on: September 10, 2015, 01:47:47 PM »
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.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Saint Augustine Quotes ~
« Reply #48 on: September 10, 2015, 01:48:27 PM »
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers because he is always ready to give to us his light not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.