Quotations From ST. AUGUSTINE

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• 1.

  This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.

  St. Augustine (354-430), Roman church father. Confessions, XIII, 35.
  
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• 2.

  The mind commands the body, and it obeys: the mind commands itself, and it withstands.

  St. Augustine (354-430), Roman church father. Confessions, VIII, 9.
• 3.

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

  St. Augustine (354-430), Roman church father. Enarrationes in Psalmos, XXXIV, 2.
• 4.

  To seek the highest good is to live well.

  St. Augustine (354-430), Roman church father. De morbis ecclesiae catholicae, 1, 3, 6.
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  The intellectual knowledge of eternal things pertains to wisdom; the rational knowledge of temporal things, to science.

  St. Augustine (354-430), Roman church father. De Trinitate, XII, 15, 25.
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  Give me chastity and continence, but not quite yet.

  St. Augustine (354-430), Roman church father. Confessions, VIII, 7.
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  What is time, then? If nobody asks me, I know; if I have to explain it to someone who has asked me, I do not know.

  St. Augustine (354-430), Roman church father. Confessions, XI, 14.
  
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  If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

  St. Augustine (354-430), Roman church father. Epistulae, 120, 1, 3.
  
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  Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.

  St. Augustine (354-430), Roman church father. The City of God, XXII, 8.
  
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• 10.

  Faith is believing what you do not see; the reward of faith is to see what you believe.

  St. Augustine (354-430), Roman church father. Sermons, 43, 1.
  
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