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It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.

It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.

Saint Augustine
Want, Easy, Lord

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

Saint Augustine
Purpose, Gains, Merit

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

Saint Augustine
Happiness, Heart, Optimism

Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.

Saint Augustine
Safe, Christ, Seems

God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!

Saint Augustine
Love Is, Unconditional, God's Love

That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

Saint Augustine
Love, Forgiveness, Hate

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

Saint Augustine
Men, Vacuums, Christ

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Saint Augustine
Philosophical, Adversity, Son

Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.

Saint Augustine

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Mother, Father
"The Pilgrim City: Social and Political Ideas in the Writings of St. Augustine of Hippo".

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Saint Augustine
Funny, Witty, Philosophical
Confessions bk. 8, ch. 7 (397 - 398)

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Saint Augustine
Inspirational, Life, Faith
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book X, (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul with the garment of faith? Remember each morning the truths of your creed, and look at yourself in the mirror of your faith. Otherwise, your soul will soon be naked with the nakedness of oblivion.

Saint Augustine
Morning, Clothes, Mirrors

Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

Saint Augustine
Children, Giving, Doe

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .

Saint Augustine
Serpent, Foolishness
St. Augustine, Saint Augustine, J. F. Shaw (2009). “On Christian Doctrine”, p.10, Courier Corporation

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

Saint Augustine
Exercise, Suffering, Wicked

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

Saint Augustine
Thinking, Salvation, Heretic

...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Effort, Doe

Love has reasons that reason knows not.

Saint Augustine
Reason, Knows

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

Saint Augustine
Believe, Long, Healthy

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Saint Augustine
Freedom, Recovery, Catholic
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 296, 1895.

Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking.

Saint Augustine
Wise, Walking

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

Saint Augustine
Character, Men, Moral

O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can hear it. My heart is listening, Lord; open the ears of my heart and say to my soul, I am your salvation. Let me run toward this voice and seize hold of you. Do not hide your face from me: let me die so that I may see it, for not to see it would be death to me indeed.

Saint Augustine
Running, Heart, Voice
"Prayers from the Confessions".

Beware of bad Catholics.

Saint Augustine
Catholic

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