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Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

Saint Augustine
Men, Nature Of Man, Cursed

Understanding is the reward of faith.

Saint Augustine
Understanding, Rewards
"Tractates on the Gospel of John". Book by Augustine. Tractate 29, www.newadvent.org.

When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

Saint Augustine
Book, Opportunity, Imagination

Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.

Saint Augustine
Jesus, Sleep, Angel

Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.

Saint Augustine
Blessed, Mind, Body

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Saint Augustine
Friendship, Hands, Two Friends

He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.

Saint Augustine
Fall, God's Will
Saint Augustine, John A. Mourant, William J. Collinge (2010). “Four Anti-Pelagian Writings (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 86)”, p.285, CUA Press

Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.

Saint Augustine
Life, Change, Song

I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within

Saint Augustine
Mistake, Lord, Divine

Love is ever new because it never groweth old.

Saint Augustine
Love, Love Is
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.4543, Aeterna Press

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

Saint Augustine
Beginners, Way, Mature
Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.40, Oxford Paperbacks

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation. He does not want to be holy; he only wants to seem to be holy. He is more concerned with his reputation for righteousness than about actually becoming righteous. The approbation of men matters more to him than the approval of God.

Saint Augustine
Motivation, Hypocrite, Men

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

Saint Augustine
Beautiful, Wise, Wisdom

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Saint Augustine
Kings, Freedom, Philosophical

Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Permit, Happens

Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

Saint Augustine
Giving, Able, Firsts

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

Saint Augustine
Spiritual, Brother, Men

All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.

Saint Augustine
Light, Understanding, Divine

What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

Saint Augustine
Heart, People, Grace
Saint Augustine (2008). “The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)”, p.478, CUA Press

Between urine and filth we are born.

Saint Augustine
Filth, Born

There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Self, Two

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

Saint Augustine
Saying Nothing

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

Saint Augustine
Truth, Taken, Lips
Saint Augustine of Hippo, St Augustine (2008). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.127, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].

Saint Augustine
Fall, Men, Poison

You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

Saint Augustine
Prayer, Enemy, Saint

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