120 ordspråk av Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine föddes den
13 november 354 och dog den 28 augustus
430 - of Hippo from 396 to 430. One of the Latin Fathers of the Church.
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
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We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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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.
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
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What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I don't know.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.
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While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
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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.
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You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.
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