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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

Saint Augustine
Life, Change, Beautiful
"Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy". Book by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 136, 1988.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Saint Augustine
Love, Life, Sympathy
"Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

We should never use the truth to wound.

Saint Augustine
Life, Advice, Use

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).

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

Saint Augustine
Life, Faithful, Asks
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 392, 1895.

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

Saint Augustine
Life, Change, Song

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.

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

Saint Augustine
Life, Christian, Law

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

Saint Augustine
Life, Book, Home

Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

Saint Augustine
Life, Art, Men

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

Saint Augustine
Life, Beauty, Ancient
"Theology and Discovery: Essays in honor of Karl Rahner, S.J." edited by William J. Kelly, 1980.

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

Saint Augustine
Inspirational, Life, Positive

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

Saint Augustine
Life, Soul, Charity

Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

Saint Augustine
Life, Spring, Love Is
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Aeterna Press “Homilies on the Gospel According to Saint John: And His First Epistle”, Aeterna Press

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

Saint Augustine
Life, Human Nature, Immense

Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.

Saint Augustine
Life, Brother, Men
"On the Mystical Body of Christ". "The Whole Christ: The Historical Development of the Doctrine of the Mystical Body in Scripture and Tradition". Book by Emile Mersch, p. 436, 1962.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

Saint Augustine
Life, Loving Life, Might
"Confessions" by Saint Augustine, Book III, (1), (c. 397).

Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest... And of what consequence is it what kind of death puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not forced to go through the same ordeal a second time? They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

Saint Augustine
Life, Needs, Kind
"The City of God".

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