Hippo Quotes - Page 2

• Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Christian, Law

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• I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

  Saint Augustine

  World, Evolution, Creation

  Saint Augustine (2014). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

  Saint Augustine

  Beautiful, Wise, Wisdom

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• I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Beauty, Ancient

  Saint Augustine (2003). “Confessions”, Penguin UK

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• I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

  Zahi Hawass

  Mean, Found, Crocodiles

  "The king of the pharaohs" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2003.

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• The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  "Mathematics in Western Culture". Book by Morris Kline, 1953.

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• God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Faith, God

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• No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Eulogy, Doe

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  Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Change, Beautiful

  "Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy". Book by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 136, 1988.

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• Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Spiritual, Prayer

  "Is It Okay to Pray for Material Things?" by Rick Hamlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

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• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational Life, Philosophical, Humility

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• Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Nature, Philosophical

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• To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, God, Falling In Love

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• Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Catholic, Empty

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.4272, Aeterna Press

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• Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Perfect, Catholic

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• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Clouds, Wish

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• The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Evil, Saint

  "Tractates on the Gospel of John" by Saint Augustine, tractate XII on John 3:6-21, § 13,

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• A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

  Saint Augustine

  Truth

  Saint Augustine, F. J. Sheed (2007). “Confessions (Second Edition)”, p.81, Hackett Publishing

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• God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Adversity, Son

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• Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual

  "Strive to Love, Anticipate with Hope, Believe in Faith". Book by Catherine Basten, 2004.

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• Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspiring, Philosophical, Justice

  "Majority of one". Book by Sydney J. Harris, p. 283, 1957.

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• Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Wilting, Command

  "The confessions of S. Augustine: A revised translation".

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• The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

  Saint Augustine

  Lions, Moral, Sanity

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• Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Catholic, Needs

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  Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Beauty, Wedding

  "The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy: Daily Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers". Book by Gregory Bergman, 2004.

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