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God gives where he finds empty hands.

God gives where he finds empty hands.

Saint Augustine
Hands, Giving, Empty

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Saint Augustine
Philosophical, Evil, Saint
"Tractates on the Gospel of John" by Saint Augustine, tractate XII on John 3:6-21, § 13,

What do you possess if you possess not God?

Saint Augustine
Saint, Ifs

He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Thinking, Sin
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9900, Aeterna Press

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

Saint Augustine
Catholic, Lust, Purity And Love

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

Saint Augustine
Life, Book, Home

He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

Saint Augustine
Doe, Littles, Way

A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.

Saint Augustine
Blessing, Men, Doe

Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

Saint Augustine
Grace, Good Work, Very Good

I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

Saint Augustine
Men, Grace, Free Will

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

Saint Augustine
Design, Graphic Design, Brilliance

Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

Saint Augustine
Victory, Conquer, Truth Is

It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

Saint Augustine
Humble, Grace, Proud

Understanding is the wages of faith.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Understanding, Wages

God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

Saint Augustine
Reverence, Greater, Ifs

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Saint Augustine
Believe, Philosophical, Men

Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.

Saint Augustine
Angel, World, This World

Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

Saint Augustine
Thinking, Vanity, Imagination

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

Saint Augustine
Men, Good Man, Wicked
"The City of God Against the Pagans (Book IV)". Book by Saint Augustine, 426 AD.

Whoever possesses God is happy.

Saint Augustine
Augustine Saint Bishop of Hippo, St Augustine (2008). “The Happy Life; Answer to Skeptics; Divine Providence and the Problem of Evil; Soliloquies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 5)”, p.59, CUA Press

I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

Saint Augustine
Believe, Moving, Catholic
"An Augustine Reader".

In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.

Saint Augustine
Fall, Vision, Progress
"De Genesi ad Litteram" by Saint Augustine, translated by J.H. Taylor in "Ancient Christian Writers", 1982.

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

Saint Augustine
Soul, Beloved, God Love

For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply "today."

Saint Augustine
Mean, Yesterday, Years
"The Confessions; The City of God; On Christian Doctrine".

You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.'

Saint Augustine
Men, Eagles, Passing Away

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