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St. Augustine of Hippo Quotes
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.



We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.



It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.



As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.



Dont hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.



He who created you without you will not justify you without you.



The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.



Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.



By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.



What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.



Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.



An unjust law is no law at all.








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