Saint Aurelius Augustine Quotes

Saint Aurelius Augustine (16)

Birth:	13th November, 0354
Death:	28th August, 0430
Nationality:	Algerian
Profession:	Bishop, Philosopher, Theologian

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• Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

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• Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood

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• Custom is second nature.

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• He who labours, prays.

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• If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

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• God is best known in not knowing him

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• He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

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• In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

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• The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

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• The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

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• Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

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• The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

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• The purpose of all war is peace.

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• The verdict of the world is conclusive.

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• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

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• This world’s a bubble.

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