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For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

Saint Augustine
Suffering, Want, Littles

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

Saint Augustine
Past, Moved On, Eternity

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

Saint Augustine
Character, Order, Law

A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words

Saint Augustine
Wind, Sea, Temptation

Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

Saint Augustine
Fighting, Enemy

Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.

Saint Augustine
Lying, Men, Lying Men

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Pride, Childhood
Saint Augustine (1847). “Expositions on the Book of Psalms”, p.563, Lulu.com

Believe that you may understand.

Saint Augustine
Believe, May, Hippo
Saint Augustine (2010). “Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 38)”, p.141, CUA Press

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

Saint Augustine
Evil, Doubt, Doe

There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.

Saint Augustine
Men, Temptation, Understanding
"The day of judgment, part two" by Ian McEwan, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."

Saint Augustine
Wisdom, Art, Kings
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.161, Catholic Way Publishing

I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

Saint Augustine
Eye, Light, Self

No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility

Saint Augustine
Humility, Heaven, Kingdoms

We come to God by love and not by navigation.

Saint Augustine
Yoga, Navigation

For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

Saint Augustine
Assessment, Lord, Knows

By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

Saint Augustine
Spiritual, Mean, May

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

Saint Augustine
Mean, Men, Stills

The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

Saint Augustine
Catholic, True Religion

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

Saint Augustine
Sweet, Devil, Poison

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Saint Augustine
Philosophical, Evil, Judging
"Enchiridion" by Saint Augustine, (Ch. 27), (c. 420).

We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.

Saint Augustine
Spiritual, Rejoice, Knows

He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.

Saint Augustine
Mother, Giving, Heaven

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

Saint Augustine
Art, Contentment, Ifs

God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.

Saint Augustine
Inspirational, Christian, Religious

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

Saint Augustine
Guides, Without You, Downfall

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