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Letter "S" » Saint Augustine Quotes
«God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other»
«Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.»
«God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.»
«Hope has two beautiful daughters: their names are anger and courage. Anger that things are the way they are. Courage to make them the way they ought to be.»
«The world's verdict is conclusive.»
«The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
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«The greatest evil is physical pain.»
«What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.»
«Hell was made for the inquisitive.»
«The playthings of our elders are called business.»
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