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Favorite Saint Augustine Quotes

1. "Love is the beauty of the soul." ~ Saint Augustine
2. "He that is jealous is not in love." ~ Saint Augustine
3. "Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility." ~ Saint Augustine
4. "Patience is the companion of wisdom." ~ Saint Augustine
5. "God loves each of us as if there were only one of us." ~ Saint Augustine
6. "O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet." ~ Saint Augustine
7. "O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams." ~ Saint Augustine
8. "Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee." ~ Saint Augustine
9. "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." ~ Saint Augustine
10. "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." ~ Saint Augustine
11. "Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others." ~ Saint Augustine
12. "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet." ~ Saint Augustine
13. "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." ~ Saint Augustine
14. "God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering." ~ Saint Augustine
15. "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." ~ Saint Augustine
16. "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." ~ Saint Augustine
17. "It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels." ~ Saint Augustine
18. "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." ~ Saint Augustine
19. "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." ~ Saint Augustine
20. "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." ~ Saint Augustine
21. "Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you." ~ Saint Augustine
22. "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." ~ Saint Augustine

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