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Letter "S" » Saint Augustine Quotes
«Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.»
«Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Humility
| Keywords:
appearance, does not exist, foundation, hence, humility, mere, The Foundation
«Punishment is justice for the unjust.»
«What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
bonds, burst, eager, happily, lashed, lashes, lashing, pokers, quarrels, red hot, sure enough, suspicions, wrapped
«He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
church, Father, Fathers of the Church, His father, his mother, mother church, The Church
«The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Danger
| Keywords:
bonds, covenant, covenanted, covenants, darken
«He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
evil, king, King He, like kings, slave, slaving, The King I, The King of Kings, though
«In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Absence
| Keywords:
organized, robberies, robbery, sovereignty
«Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Mankind,
Men
| Keywords:
abroad, circular, compass, compasses, compassing, courses, heights, huge, Long Course, motions, mountains, mountain pass, ocean, pass by, rivers, River Went, The Long, The Sea, vast, waves, wondering
«Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Belief,
Charity,
Soul
| Keywords:
associate, charity, providence, reduce
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