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People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

Saint Augustine
Stars, Sea, Rivers

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.

Saint Augustine
Thinking, Doe, Scripture
St. Augustine, Saint Augustine, J. F. Shaw (2009). “On Christian Doctrine”, p.26, Courier Corporation

They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

Saint Augustine
Needs, Be Careful, Dies
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.39, Catholic Way Publishing

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

Saint Augustine
Feet, Vices, Ladders

The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.

Saint Augustine
Men, Sky, Evil

The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.

Saint Augustine
Men, Giving, Heaven

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

Saint Augustine
Sheep

No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

Saint Augustine
Men, Ease, Forget
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Aeterna Press (1931). “The City of God”, p.1710, Aeterna Press

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. 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. Modest humility is beauty's crown.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Foundation, Fabric
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 330, 1895.

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.

Saint Augustine
Beauty, Thinking, Catholic
"Confessions" by Saint Augustine, Book XV, (22), (c. 397).

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Saint Augustine
God, Philosophical, Lord

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

Saint Augustine
Two, Reputation, Dues

Doubt is but another element of faith.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Doubt, Elements

There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.

Saint Augustine
Powerful, Passion, Sleep

True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

Saint Augustine
Thinking, True Joy, Looks

In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

Saint Augustine
Catholic, Failing, Lord

No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face.

Saint Augustine
Light, Darkness, Ignorant

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

Saint Augustine
Forgiveness, Thinking, Forgive Me

And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?

Saint Augustine
Spirit, God Love, Holy
"Homilies on the Gospel According to Saint John: And His First Epistle".

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Saint Augustine
Love, Romantic, Beauty
"The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy: Daily Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers". Book by Gregory Bergman, 2004.

Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

Saint Augustine
Prayer, Knees, Straws

The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous, nor is it to be believed that its tradition is anything except apostolic.

Saint Augustine
Mother, Baptism, Church

Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.

Saint Augustine
Hands, Holy Eucharist, Flesh

Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

Saint Augustine
Punishment, Suffering, Lasts

What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

Saint Augustine
Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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