Inspirational Quotes by Augustine

“Music, that is the science or the sense of proper modulation, is likewise given by God's generosity to mortals having rational souls in order to lead them to higher things.”

“If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God.”

“Radost koju daje svijet isprazna je. Očekujemo je s velikom željom, no kada dođe, ne zadržavamo je. Tuga onoga tko trpi nepravdu bolja je od radosti onoga koji čini bezakonje.”

“As flattering friends mislead, quarreling foes can often correct”

“Los hombres están siempre dispuestos a curiosear y averiguar sobre las vidas ajenas, pero les da pereza conocerse a sí mismos y corregir su propia vida”

“Do not go outside, go back into yourself. Truth dwells in the inner man.”

“Let Him do what pleases Him; let Him disclose Himself when it pleases Him! I now commit myself wholly to His care and clemency.”

“Behold, now, how foolish it is, in so great an abundance of the truest opinions which can be extracted from these words, rashly to affirm which of them Moses particularly meant; and with pernicious contentions to offend charity itself, on account of which he hath spoken all the things whose words we endeavour to explain!”

“Não podeis ser obrigado, por Vossa força, seja ao que for, porque em Vós a vontade não é maior do que o poder. Porém, seria maior, se Vós fôsseis maior que Vós mesmo. Mas a vontade e o poder de Deus são o próprio Deus.Para Vós que tudo conheceis, existe acaso alguma coisa imprevista? Nenhhuma natureza existe, senão porque a conhecestes. Para que proferimos nós tantas palavras a fim de comprovar que a substância de Deus não é corruptível, já que, se o fosse não seria Deus?”

“Com efeito, não só o ir ao céu mas também o atingi-lo não são mais que o querer ir, mas um querer forte e total, não uma vontade tíbia que anda e desanda daqui para ali, que luta entre si, erguendo-se num lado e caindo no outro.”

“God has one Son without sin, but none without affliction.”

“And in the universe, even that which is called evil, when it is regulated and put in its own place, only enhances our admiration of the good; for we enjoy and value the good more when we compare it with the evil. For the Almighty God, who, as even the heathen acknowledge, has supreme power over all things, being Himself supremely good, would never permit the existence of anything evil among His works, if He were not so omnipotent and good that He can bring good even out of evil. For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good? In the bodies of animals, disease and wounds mean nothing but the absence of health; for when a cure is effected, that does not mean that the evils which were present—namely, the diseases and wounds—go away from the body and dwell elsewhere: they altogether cease to exist; for the wound or disease is not a substance, but a defect in the fleshly substance,—the flesh itself being a substance, and therefore something good, of which those evils—that is, privations of the good which we call health—are accidents. Just in the same way, what are called vices in the soul are nothing but privations of natural good. And when they are cured, they are not transferred elsewhere: when they cease to exist in the healthy soul, they cannot exist anywhere else.”

“Ó virtude da minha alma, entrai nela, adaptai-a a Vós, para a terdes e possuirdes sem mancha nem ruga. É esta a esperança com que falo, a esperança em que me alegro quando gozo de uma alegria sã. Os outros bens dessa vida, tanto menos se deveriam chorar, quanto mais os choramos; e tanto mais se deveria chorar, quanto menos os choramos.”

“Faith is to believe what we cannot see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.”

“Eu, ainda que diante de Vós me despreze e me tenha em conta de terra e cinza, sei de Vós algumas coisas que não conheço de mim [...]. Sei que em nada podeis ser prejudicado, mas ignoro a que tentações posso ou não posso resistir.”

“Ami e non ti scomponi, sei geloso e imperturbabile, ti penti e non provi rimorso, ti infurii e resti in pace, muti le opere ma non l’idea.”

“When we ask how a good man is we do not ask what he believes or hopes but what he loves.”

“When we ask how a good man is, we do not ask what he believes or hopes for, but what he loves.”

“Our wound is serious, but the Physician is all-powerful. Does it seem to you so small a mercy that, while you were living in evil and sinning, He did not take away your life, but brought you to belief and forgave your sins? What I suffer is serious, but I trust the Almighty. I would despair of my mortal wound if i had not found so great Physician.”

“Ninguém se deve ter por seguro nesta vida que toda ela se chama tentação. Quem é que, sendo pior, não se pode tornar melhor, e de melhor descer a pior? Só há uma única esperança, uma única promessa inabalável: Vossa misericórdia.”