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354–430
St. Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a Christian theologian, rhetor, North African bishop, Doctor of the Catholic Church, saint, and a philosopher influenced in his early years by Manichaeism and the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus.
Also known as: Augustine, City of God, Saint Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo, St Augustine, St. Augustine
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The inclination to seek the truth is safer than the presumption which regards unknown things as known.
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance; but He has not promised to-morrow to your procrastination.
My soul was unhealthy; and, full of sores, it exuded itself forth, itching to be scratched by scraping on the things of the senses.
That is the true perfection of man to find out his imperfections.
It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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Christ is not valued at all unless He be valued above all.
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The true servants of God are not solicitous that He should order them to do what they desire to do, but that they may desire to do what He orders them to do.
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God, grant us men to see in a small thing principles which are common things both small and great.
Confessions (397)
Not for nothing is habit called a second and a kind of manufactured nature.
God became man so that man might become God.
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light, — although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
An unjust law is no law at all.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
He that loveth little prayeth little; he that loveth much prayeth much.
By continence the scattered elements of the self are collected and brought back into the unity from which we have slid away into dispersion.
How can He grant you what you do not desire to receive?
Habit if not resisted soon becomes necessity.
In a quarrel for earth, turn not to earth.
And so the passion of Christ is not in Christ alone; and yet the passion of Christ is in Christ alone.
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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