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Singing is a lover's thing.

Singing is a lover's thing.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Inspiration, Singing

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

Saint Augustine
Believe, Philosophical, Soul

You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Charity

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

Saint Augustine
Past, Three, Variation
Saint Augustine (2003). “City of God”, p.589, Penguin UK

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

Saint Augustine
Wine, Poetry, Devil

Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love.

Saint Augustine
Cry, Silent, Spares

When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Saint Augustine
Broken, Doubtful, All Things
Saint Augustine (2010). “Treatises on Various Subjects (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 16)”, p.78, CUA Press

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

Saint Augustine
Writing, Giving, Zenith

Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

Saint Augustine
Heaven, Rewards, Results

I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid loose? If not, why does it still echo in our ears on all sides, "Let him alone, let him do as he will, for he is not yet baptised?" but as to bodily health, no one says, "Let him be worse wounded, for he is not yet healed." How much better then, had I been at once healed; and then, by my friends' diligence and my own, my soul's recovered health had been kept safe in Thy keeping who gavest it.

Saint Augustine
Healing, Echoes, Soul
"The Confessions of St. Augustine".

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Saint Augustine
Unity, Be Patient, Faithfulness
"Footprints in Time: Fulfilling God's Destiny for Your Life". Book by Jeff O'Leary, p. 223, 2006.

Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Eye, Mind

A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.

Saint Augustine
Light, Suffering, World

It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain; but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved, and are daily proving by actual experiment), in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word.

Saint Augustine
Pain, Teaching, Men
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.10789, Aeterna Press

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Saint Augustine
Government, Justice, Mind

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

Saint Augustine
Blow, Nails, Done

O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Inspiration, Unity

The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.

Saint Augustine
Law, Wicked, Delight

Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.

Saint Augustine
People, Justice, Republic
SAINT AUGUSTINE (1952). “THE CONFESSIONS THE CITY OF GOD ON CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE”

Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger.

Saint Augustine
Inspiring, Angel, Names

Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

Saint Augustine
Energy, Sin

Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not as it is: because that even we, though the well beloved of thy Son, yet it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. He looked through the lattice of our flesh and he spake us fair, yea, he set us on fire, and we hasten on his scent. But when he shall appear, then shall we be like him, for we shall see him as he is: as he is, Lord, will our sight be, though the time be not yet.

Saint Augustine
Time, Son, Fire

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
Love, Jealousy, Anger

You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

Saint Augustine
Good Life
Sermons 229H:3:2,

Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.

Saint Augustine
Stars, Moon, Thinking

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