Top 100 Augustine Of Hippo Quotes
#1. He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.
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#2. The throne of wisdom is the soul of the righteous, that is, wisdom sits on the soul of the righteous as on her chair, as on her throne, and there judges whatever she judges.
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#4. The past times that you think were good, are good because they are not yours here and now.
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#5. What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.
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#6. If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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#8. Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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#9. A thing is good and pleasant only because it is connected to Him. Use it apart from its Source, and it will come to taste bitter. Since the good thing is His, how can it remain worth loving if you forsake Him to get it?
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#10. For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.
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#11. Let such a person rejoice even to ask the question, "What does this mean?" Yes, let him rejoice in that, and choose to find by not finding rather than by finding fail to find you.
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#13. People go to admire lofty mountains, and huge breakers at sea, and crashing waterfalls, and vast stretches of ocean, and the dance of the stars, but they leave themselves behind out of sight.
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#14. But no one doth well against his will, even though what he doth, be well.
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#15. If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
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#16. God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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#18. For no one should consider anything his own, except perhaps a lie, since all truth is from Him who said, I am the truth.
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#19. Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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#20. For no one ought to consider anything as his own, except perhaps what is false. All truth is of Him who says, "I am the truth." [1715] For what have we that we did not receive? and if we have received it, why do we glory, as if we had not received it? [1716]
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#22. it is grace that makes us fulfil the law, and causes nature to be liberated from the dominion of sin.
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#23. Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.
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#24. Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, and inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good!
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#25. The Trinity, one God, of whom are all things, through whom are all things, in whom are all things. [1723]
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#26. But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury. Moreover, a people becomes avaricious and luxurious by prosperity.
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#27. But Thou who fillest all things, fillest Thou them with Thy whole self? or, since all things cannot contain Thee wholly, do they contain part of Thee? and all at once the same part? or each its own part, the greater more, the smaller less?
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#28. My mother was already well aware of that, and her plan was to commit to the waves the clay out of which I would later be shaped rather than the actual image itself.20
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#29. For dismissed by You from Paradise, and having taken my journey into a far country, I cannot by myself return, unless Thou meetest the wanderer: for my return has throughout the whole tract of this world's time waited for Your mercy.
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#30. Da quod iubes et iube quod vis
Give what thou commandest and command what thou wilt
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#31. So material a difference does it make, not what ills are suffered, but what kind of man suffers them.
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#32. 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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#33. Hence, you see your faith, you see your doubt, you see your desire and will to learn, and when you are induced by divine authority to believe what you do not see, you see at one that you believe these things; you analyze and discern all this.
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#34. Miracles happen, not in opposition to Nature, but in opposition to what we know of Nature.
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#35. We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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#38. It's not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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#39. Clearly, it is a happier lot to be the slave of a man than of a lust:
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#40. Reason judges in one way, custom in another. Reason judges by the light of truth, so that by right judgment it subjects lesser things to greater. Custom is often swayed by agreeable habits, so that it esteems as greater what truth reveals as lower.
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#41. No man can be a good bishop if he loves his title but not his task.
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#43. 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.
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#44. It would have been more profitable to love the sun in the sky, which at least our eyes perceive truly, than those chimeras offered to a mind that had been led astray through its eyes.
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#46. But man did not so fall away94 as to become absolutely nothing; but being turned towards himself, his being became more contracted than it was when he clave to Him who supremely is.
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#47. The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered the form which you had lost. Therefore he was deformed when he hung on the cross. But his deformity is our comeliness. In this life, therefore, let us hold fast to the deformed Christ.
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#48. Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.
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#49. The mode of ascertaining the proper meaning, and the mode of making known the meaning when it is ascertained.
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#51. What is pride but an appetite for inordinate exaltation? Now, exaltation is inordinate when the soul cuts itself off from the very Source to which it should keep close and somehow makes itself and becomes an end to itself.
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#52. Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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#53. For sin bust be punished either by the penitent sinner or by God, his judge; and God, who has promised pardon to the penitent sinner, has nowhere promised to one who delays his conversion a morrow to do penance in.
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#54. Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.
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#55. Thou gavest; and to my nurses willingly to give me what Thou gavest them. For they, with a heaven-taught affection, willingly gave me what they abounded with from Thee.
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#56. The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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#57. In seeking him they find him, and in finding they will praise him.
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#58. It is not reason which turns the young man from God; it is the flesh. Skepticism but provides him with the excuses for the new life he is leading.
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#59. Men are so blind in their impiety that, as it were, they bump into mountains and refuse to see what hits them in the eye.
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#60. No eulogy is due to a man who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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#61. Chapter 3. That the Romans Did Not Show Their Usual Sagacity When They Trusted that They Would Be Benefited by the Gods Who Had Been Unable to Defend Troy. And these
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#62. The nature of God can never and nowhere be deficient in anything, while things made out of nothing can be deficient.
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#63. He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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#64. Seek what ye seek; but it is not there where ye seek. Ye seek a blessed life in the land of death; it is not there. For how should there be a blessed life where life itself is not?
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#65. Purity both of the body and the soul rests on the steadfastness of the will strengthened by God's grace, and cannot be forcibly taken from an unwilling person.
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#66. Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
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#69. analytically; or even to defend it upon grounds of reason. The keen Dr. South expresses the common sentiment, when he remarks that "as he that denies this fundamental article of the Christian religion may lose his soul, so he that much strives to understand it may lose his wits.
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#70. 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.
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#72. They have only that power which the secret decree of the Almighty allots to them, in order that we may not set too great store by earthly prosperity,
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#73. The soul is torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.
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#74. This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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#75. Shall any be his own artificer? or can there elsewhere be derived any vein, which may stream essence and life into us, save from thee, O Lord, in whom essence and life are one? for Thou Thyself art supremely Essence and Life.
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#76. Yet when it happens to me that the music moves me more than the subject of the song, I confess myself to commit a sin deserving punishment, and then I would prefer not to have heard the singer.
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#77. A community is nothing else than a harmonious collection of individuals.
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#79. It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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#80. I would learn to discern and distinguish the difference between presumption and confession, between those who see what the goal is but not how to get there and those who see the way which leads to the home of bliss, not merely as an end to be perceived but as a realm to live in.
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#81. 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 of jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels
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#82. There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.
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#83. Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.
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#84. The person who knows the truth knows it, and he who knows it knows eternity. Love knows it.
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#86. In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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#88. Our city must remember that in the ranks of its enemies, lie hid fellow citizens to be, and that it is well to bear with them until we can reach them in their profession of faith.
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#89. When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.
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#90. Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?
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#91. For whence had that former sorrow so easily penetrated to the quick, but that I had poured out my soul upon the dust, in loving one who must die?
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#92. For I am aware what ability is requisite to persuade the proud how great is the virtue of humility, which raises us, not by a quite human arrogance, but by a divine grace, above all earthly dignities that totter on this shifting scene.
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#93. How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose..! You drove them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place ... O Lord my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation.
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#94. I think I have now, by God's help, discharged my obligation in writing this large work. Let those who think I have said too little, or those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough join me in giving thanks to God. Amen.
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#95. O mortals, how long will you be heavy-hearted? Life has come down to you, and are you reluctant to ascend and live? But what room is there for you to ascend, you with your high-flown ways and lofty talk? Come down, that you may ascend, ascend even to God ...
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#96. Since divine truth and scripture clearly teach us that God, the Creator of all things, is Wisdom, a true philosopher will be a lover of God. That does not mean that all who answer to the name are really in love with genuine wisdom, for it is one thing to be and another to be called a philosopher.
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#97. Homer invented these fictions and attributed human powers to the gods; I wish he had attributed divine powers to us
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#98. For often we wickedly blind ourselves to the occasions of teaching and admonishing them, sometimes even of reprimanding and chiding them, either because we shrink from the labor or are ashamed to offend them, or because we fear to lose good friendships,
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#99. Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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#100. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
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