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The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.

The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.

Saint Augustine
Kings, Slave, Remains

God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.

Saint Augustine
Evil, Way, Permit

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

Saint Augustine
Night, Treasure, Riches
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 523, 1895.

Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

Saint Augustine
Peace, Prayer, Lord

It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

Saint Augustine
Covered Up, Catholic, Scandal

The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

Saint Augustine
Our World, Heaven, Saint

What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.

Saint Augustine
Mistake
"The City of God". Book by Augustine, XI, 26,

What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and overspreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things.

Saint Augustine
Beautiful, God, Art
Saint Augustine (2014). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.4, Open Road Media

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

Saint Augustine
People, Victory, Hippo
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.139, Catholic Way Publishing

If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.

Saint Augustine
Soul, Shut Up, Sin

Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

Saint Augustine
Numbers, Devil, Majority

So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.

Saint Augustine
Thinking, Long, Would Be
Saint Augustine (2012). “The City of God”, p.38, New City Press

The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Christian, Inspiration

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.

Saint Augustine
Rome, Cities, Victory
Saint Augustine (2003). “City of God”, p.157, Penguin UK

Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.

Saint Augustine
Delight, Contemplation, Teach

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
Humility, Thinking, Wish

God is best known in not knowing him.

Saint Augustine
Knowing, Not Knowing, Known
"'On Order' ('De Ordine')". Book by Saint Augustine, II, 16,

You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

Saint Augustine
Needs, Lord, Goodness
Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.125, OUP Oxford

Christ was born of a woman without the man.

Saint Augustine
Men, Christ, He Man
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As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world, it may be understood that they are held as approved and instituted either by the apostles themselves, or by plenary Councils, whose authority in the Church is most useful, e.g. the annual commemoration, by special solemnities, of the Lord's passion, resurrection, and ascension, and of the descent of the Holy Spirit from heaven, and whatever else is in like manner observed by the whole Church wherever it has been established.

Saint Augustine
Passion, Heaven, Special

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

Saint Augustine
Men, Scary, Devil
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.584, Catholic Way Publishing

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

Saint Augustine
Want, Pay, Miserable
Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.281

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

Saint Augustine
Death, Suicide, Children

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

Saint Augustine
Risk, Doe, Awful

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

Saint Augustine
Philosophy, Judging, Abuse

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