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“In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Suicide #Book #Suicidal
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“A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Christian #Heart #Thinking
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“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Faith #Prayer #Work
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“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Inspirational #Faith #Spiritual
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“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Inspirational #Life #Travel
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“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will...”
-- Saint Augustine
#Two #Judging #Accepting
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“Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Men #Scary #Way
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“Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Soul #Beloved #God Love
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“People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering... Now, let us acknowledge the wonder of our physical incarnation- that we are here, in these particular bodies, at this particular time, in these particular circumstances. May we never take for granted the gift of our individuality.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Gratitude #Stars #Ocean
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“He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Mother #Father #Church
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“Love God, and do what you like.”
-- Saint Augustine
#God Love
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“Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Silence #Cry #Refrain
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“He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Christian #Mother #Father
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“That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Love #Hate #Forgiving
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“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Humility #Angel #Pride
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“By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Unity #Be Patient #Faithfulness
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“O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Prayer #May #Lord
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“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Love #Beauty #Wedding
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“For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.”
-- Saint Augustine
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“The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Christian #Old Testament #New Testament
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“Love is ever new because it never groweth old.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Love #Love Is
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“There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither love nor hope without faith.”
-- Saint Augustine
#No Hope #Without Hope
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“The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Men #Good Man #Wicked
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“Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Flesh #Thee
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“Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Christian #Christian Inspirational #Permit
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“Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Stars #Moon #Thinking
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“Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?”
-- Saint Augustine
#Inspirational #Life #Positive
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“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Inspirational #Patience #Wisdom
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“Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Life #Brother #Men
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“Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.”
-- Saint Augustine
#Life #Spring #Love Is
