ST. AUGUSTINE'S QUOTES

ST. AUGUSTINE'S QUOTES

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Conquer yourself and the world lies at your feet. 
- Saint Augustine

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it. 
- Saint Augustine

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness and peril of falling? 
- Saint Augustine

Daily advance, then, in this love, both by praying and by well doing, that through the help of Him who enjoined it on you, and whose gift it is, it may be nourished and increased, until, being perfected, it render you perfect. 
- Saint Augustine

What do you possess if you possess not God? 
- Saint Augustine

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal. 
- Saint Augustine

The love of worldly possessions is a sort of bird line, which entangles the soul, and prevents it flying to God. 
- Saint Augustine

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God. 
- Saint Augustine

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves. 
- Saint Augustine

I will suggest a means whereby you can praise God all day long, if you wish. Whatever you do, do it well, and you have praised God. 
- Saint Augustine

This is the business of our life. By labor and prayer to advance in the grace of God, till we come to that height of perfection in which, with clean hearts, we may behold God. 
- Saint Augustine

God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist. 
- Saint Augustine

God does not command impossibilities, but by commanding admonishes you do what you can and to pray for what you cannot, and aids you that you may be able. 
- Saint Augustine

Our life and our death are with our neighbor. 
- Saint Augustine

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