March 2012
1 post
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“A man can be his own devil.”
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St. Augustine
(Frangipane 5,5)
February 2012
29 posts
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“Nothing is more satisfying than a thing that rolls; that is why money is made...”
–
St. Augustine
(Discourses on the Psalms 33,1,3)
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“Your desire is your prayer.”
–
St. Augustine (Discourses on the Psalms 37,14)
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“Fear God that you may not go backward; love him that you may go forward.”
–
St. Augustine
(Letters 144,2)
3 tags
“There is no room for prolonged sadness when there is no certitude of eternal...”
–
St. Augustine
(Confessions 10, 29)
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“If a man cannot speak wisely let his life be such that he not only obtains a...”
–
St. Augustine
(On Christian Doctrine 4,60)
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“To do evil is nothing else but to stray away from education. If a man is evil,...”
–
St. Augustine
(On Free Will 1,1)
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“Some teachers are like milestones which indeed show the traveller the way but...”
–
St. Augustine
(Sermons 119,2)
2 tags
“Don’t imagine that heresies are the products of little minds; it takes a...”
–
St. Augustine
(Discourses on the Psalms 124,1.5)
2 tags
“Teachers offer themselves for imitation. This is the essence of what people call...”
–
St. Augustine
(On Music 1,6)
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“All my hope rests only in your exceeding mercy, O Lord,”
–
St. Augustine
(Letters 263,4)
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“Peace should not be the object of our desire and was looked upon as a necessity...”
–
St. Augustine
(Letters 6,6)
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“No one succeeds in raising to another to the height where he stands, unless he...”
–
St. Augustine
(Letters 11,4)
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“I will teach you remembering and bearing in mind the obligations of my...”
–
St. Augustine
(Sermons 242,1,1)
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“Don’t slight your habitual habits just because, out of habit, you...”
–
St. Augustine
(Sermons 17,3,3)
3 tags
“When a man suffers in his own person, this is called misery; but when he suffers...”
– St. Augustine
(Confessions 3,2)
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“God does not want men to make pictures of his sign, but those who act upon them.”
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St. Augustine
(Discourses on the Psalms 50, 4)
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“The fruit cannot be good unless the tree is good.”
–
St. Augustine
(Sermons 72, 4)
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“On the other hand, there is nothing in this life more difficult, more toilsome,...”
–
St. Augustine
(Letters 21)
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“Love is the life of the spirit; hatred, its death.”
–
St. Augustine
(Discourses on the Psalms 154, 7)
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“To combat the crime and to wish to deliver the criminal is not to entangle...”
–
St. Augustine
(Letters 113)
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“By watering the seedling, you help it grow into a big tree.”
–
St. Augustine
(Sermons 32,1)
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“Men catch fire by anger; they also catch fire by love. The first is the fervor...”
–
St. Augustine
(Sermons 3,6)
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“Every man pursues what he really loves.”
–
St. Augustine
(On the Letter of St. John 7,1)
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“No one can be a true friend of men who is not a good friend of truth.”
–
St. Augustine
(Letters 155,11)
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“It is much better to be angry with no one, even when it is justifiable, than...”
–
St. Augustine
(Letters 38,2)
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“Only the wicked grumbles as the wicked.”
–
St. Augustine
(Sermons 302, 16)
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“Eloquent is the man whose life can speak.”
–
St. Augustine
(On Christian Doctrine 27, 59)
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“Why have the rich so much? Because their wants have no limit. The more they...”
–
St. Augustine
(Discourses on the Psalms 127, 9,13)
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“We will always strive for the superfluous as long as we are not content with the...”
–
St. Augustine
(Discourses on the Psalms 147, 12)
January 2012
30 posts
2 tags
“Those riches of ours are not riches but beggary; for the more they abound, the...”
–
St. Augustine
(Discourses on the Psalms 122, 11)
1 tag
“If you lack earthly riches, do not seek them by evil deeds.”
–
St. Augustine
(Letters 189,7)
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“How many come and say: the government has taken all my property and I shall die...”
–
St. Augustine
(Sermons 302,5)
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“There are many who are ready to give their goods to the poor, but very few are...”
–
St. Augustine
(Discourses on the Psalms 121,3)
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“Too much talk? What more expressive symbol of vacuity is there than the croaking...”
–
St. Augustine
(Discourses on the Psalms 75, 1,27)
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“Be constant in your holy aspirations so that your readiness to begin them may be...”
–
St. Augustine
(On the Work of the Monks 15, 33)
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“Justice in each individual exists when God rules and man obeys.”
–
St. Augustine
(City of God 19,27)
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“God’s hand did not only make you, it also made the poor man with you.”
–
St. Augustine
(Sermons 61,12)
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“Great love is great justice; perfect love is perfect justice.”
–
St. Augustine
(On Nature and Grace 70,84)
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“You are like a beggar at God’s door, but at your door there is another...”
–
St. Augustine
(Sermons 53A,10)
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“There is true justice in that City of which the holy Scripture says,...”
–
St. Augustine
(City of God 2,21)
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“Gossipers are described in a certain passage of the Scripture this way:...”
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St. Augustine
(Discourses on the Psalms 132,8)
2 tags
“Now, my brethren, let us sing. Not for our delight, as we rest, but to cheer us...”
–
St. Augustine
(Sermons 256,3)
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“If you are far from your own self, how can you draw near to God?”
–
St. Augustine
(On the Gospel of St. John 23, 10)
2 tags
“To teach is a perilous vocation, much more dangerous than being taught. The...”
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St. Augustine
(Discourses on the Psalms 126,3)
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“What can be more unjust than that a man who does not wish to obey his superior...”
–
St. Augustine
(On the Work of the Monks 31, 39)
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“By the recession and succession of things the beauty of the ages is woven.”
–
St. Augustine
(Literal Exposition on the Genesis 1,8)
2 tags
“One should not be so given up to contemplation as to neglect the good of his...”
–
St. Augustine
(City of God 19,19)
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“As much as we receive, so much we should give back, and render back to him to...”
–
St. Augustine
(On Free Will 3,15,42)
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“Don’t try to play the game of business under the appearance of piety.”
–
St. Augustine
(Sermons 9,12,20)