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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Saint Augustine
Philosophical, Eulogy, Doe

Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Eye, May

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

Saint Augustine
Men, Self, Slave
Saint Augustine (2010). “The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)”, p.290, CUA Press

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

Saint Augustine
Voice, Giving, Tongue
St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 20-50”, p.168

As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

Saint Augustine
God, Soul, Body
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 277, 1895.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

Saint Augustine
Punishment, Mind, Disorder
Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.16, OUP Oxford

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

Saint Augustine
Book, Scripture, Contradiction

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

Saint Augustine
Law, Unjust, Moral Responsibility
"On Free Choice Of The Will" by Saint Augustine, Book 1, § 5, 395 AD.

Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Love Is, Voice

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

Saint Augustine
Blessed, Noble, Ends

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Pride, Sin

Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

Saint Augustine
Father, Watches, Steps

Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.

Saint Augustine
Truth, Soul, Purity

Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .

Saint Augustine
Love You, Too Late, Ancient

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

Saint Augustine
Wisdom, Knowledge, Intellectual

Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

Saint Augustine
Honor, Worship, Praise
St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 273-305”, p.21

Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

Saint Augustine
Omnipotence, Evil, Goodness

You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Thinking, Design
"Sermon 19:2 on the New Testament". "Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: First Series". Book edited by Philip Schaff, translated by R.G. MacMullen, Volume 6, www.newadvent.org.

Your wisdom should be without pride.

Saint Augustine
Pride, Should

The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

Saint Augustine
Inspirational, Life, Education
"Mathematics in Western Culture". Book by Morris Kline, 1953.

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

Saint Augustine
Desire, Habit, Virtuous
St. Augustine, Saint Augustine, J. F. Shaw (2009). “On Christian Doctrine”, p.8, Courier Corporation

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Saint Augustine
Life, Christian, Law

"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

Saint Augustine
Order, Grace, Done
"A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter".

Whole prayer is nothing but love.

Saint Augustine
Love, Prayer, Whole

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

Saint Augustine
Atheist, Men, Enough
Saint Augustine of Hippo, St Augustine (2008). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.31, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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