Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour. Saint Augustine
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page. Saint Augustine
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations. Saint Augustine
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
Hear the other side. (Audi Partem Alteram). Saint Augustine
Hear the other side. (Audi Partem Alteram).
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. Saint Augustine
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Unless you believe, you will not understand. Saint Augustine
Unless you believe, you will not understand.
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. Saint Augustine
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love. Saint Augustine
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee. Saint Augustine
...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.
You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones. Saint Augustine
You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. Saint Augustine
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. Saint Augustine
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection. Saint Augustine
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
Patience is the companion of wisdom. Saint Augustine
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. Saint Augustine
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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