Augustine of Hippo Short Quotes

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There is no salvation outside the church.

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Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

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Troubles are but so many instructors to teach men wit.

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Are you not able to do what these men and women have done?

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Christ is not valued at all unless He be valued above all.

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Trust not the world, for it never payeth that it promiseth.

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On Ps 60:3: To Thee have I cried from the ends of the earth.

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Where is the thief who cannot find bad when he hunts for it?

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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

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In this one man, the whole Church has been assumed by the Word.

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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

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Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.

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He who created you without you will not justify you without you.

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The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

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

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

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Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.

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Give, O Lord, what Thou commandest, and then command what Thou wilt.

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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

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Wellnigh the whole substance of the Christian discipline is humility.

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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

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In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

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Before God can deliver us from ourselves, we must undeceive ourselves.

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

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He that loveth little prayeth little; he that loveth much prayeth much.

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The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

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A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

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

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