858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

  • Author Saint Augustine
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    In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.

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    They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.

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    Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

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    Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

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    Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.

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