Inspirational Quotes by Augustine

“The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but - what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.”

“The nature of God can never and nowhere be deficient in anything, while things made out of nothing can be deficient.”

“Why rage against bad people? “Because they’re bad,” you say. You add yourself to their number by raging against them. Let me give you some advice: Are you being bothered by a bad person? Don’t make there be two of you. By condemning the person, you join them. You increase the number under judgment. You want to defeat bad with bad and conquer evil with evil?... Have you not heard the Lord’s advice: “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good”? ”

“Si precisas una mano, recuerda que yo tengo dos”

“Why are you relying on yourself, only to find yourself unreliable?”

“There is a Master within Who teaches us. Christ is our Master, and his inspiration and his anointing teaches us. Where his inspiration and his anointing are lacking, it is in vain that words resound in our ears. As Paul the Apostle said: 'I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.' Therefore, whether we plant or whether we water by our words, we are nothing. It is God Who gives the increase; His anointing teaches you all things.”

“Man is one of your creatures, Lord, and his instinct is to praise you…. The thought of you stirs him so deeply that he cannot be content unless he praises you, because you made us for yourself and our hearts find no peace until they rest in you.”

“It is only in the face of death that man’s self is born.”

“Adalet olmayınca devlet büyük bir çeteden başka nedir?”

“Se pois, é pela imagem, e não por si mesmo, que o esquecimento se enraíza na memória, foi preciso que se achasse presente para que a memória pudesse captar a imagem. Como pôde o esquecimento, quando estava presente, gravar a sua imagem na memória, se ele, com sua presença apaga tudo que lá encontra? Enfim, seja como for, apesar de ser inexplicável e incompreensível o modo como se enraíza de fato, estou certo de que me lembro do esquecimento, que nos varre da memória tudo aquilo de que nos lembramos.”

“Do not say that the past was better than the present. Virtues are what make the good times and vices that go bad.”

“What is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I want to explain it to a questioner, I don't know. But at any rate this much I dare affirm I know: that if nothing passes, there would be no past time; if nothing were approaching, there would be no future time; if nothing were, there would be no present time. But the two times, past and future, how can they be, since the past is no more and the future is not yet? On the other hand, if the present were always present and never flowed away into the past, it would not be time at all, but eternity. But if the present is only time, because it flows away into the past, how we can say that it is? For it is, only because it will cease to be. Thus we can affirm that time is only in that it tends towards not-being.”

“Se nós retemos na memória aquilo que nos lembramos, e se nos é impossível, ao ouvir a palavra esquecimento, compreender o que ela significa, a não ser que nos lembremos, conclui-se que a memória retém o esquecimento.”

“He who alone was free among he dead, for he was free to lay down his life and free to take it up again, was for us both Victor and Victim in your sight, and it was because he was he Victim that he was also the Victor. In your sight he was both Preist and Sacrifice, and it was because he was the Sacrifice that he was also the Preist. By being your Son, yet serving you, he freed us from servitude and made us your sons. Rightly do I place in my firm hope that you will cure all my ills through him who sits at your right hand and pleads for us: otherwise I should despair. For my ills are many and great, many and great indeed; but your medicine is greater still.”

“You have truly gained the mastery of the very stronghold of philosophy, Mother. For without doubt only for lack of words you did not elaborate on this subject as did Tullius [Cicero], whose words will follow. For in the Hortensius, the book he wrote on the praise and defense of philosophy, he said: ‘But see, surely not the philosophers but all given to argument say that those who live just as they wish are happy.’ This is definitely false; for to want what is not appropriate is the worst of all miseries. It is not so miserable not to get what you want as to want to get what you ought not. Wickedness of will brings to everyone greater evil than good fortune brings good.”

“Sing with your voices, your hearts, your lips and your lives: Sing to the Lord a new song.”

“Whoever is born anywhere as a human being, that is as a rational mortal creature, however strange he may appear to our senses in bodily form or colour or motion or utterance, or any faculty, part or quality of his nature whatsoever, let no true believer have any doubt that such an individual is descended from the one man who was first created.”

“Late have I loved Thee, 0 Beauty so ancient and so new; late have I loved Thee! For behold Thou were within me, and I outside; and I sought Thee outside and in my unloveliness fell upon those lovely things that Thou hast made. Thou were with me and I was not with Thee. I was kept from Thee by those things, yet had they not been in Thee, they would not have been at all. Thou didst call and cry to me and break open my deafness: and Thou didst send forth Thy beams and shine upon me and chase away my blindness: Thou didst breathe fragrance upon me, and I drew in my breath and now I pant for Thee: I tasted Thee, and now hunger and thirst for Thee: Thou didst touch me, and I have burned for Thy peace.”

“219Take up and read, take up and read.”

“Take up and read, take up and read.”