I leave you the best phrases of Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430), doctor, father and saint of the Catholic Church. He is considered the greatest thinker of Christianity of the first millennium and one of the great geniuses in history.
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-The right thing is right even if nobody does it, the wrong thing is wrong even if everyone does.
-God provides the wind, man must hoist the sail.
-God is always trying to give us good things, but our hands are too full to receive them.
-The truth is like a lion, you don't need to defend it. Set her free, she will defend herself.
-If you understood, it wouldn't be God.
-Faith is believing in what is not seen; the reward of faith is in seeing what you believe.
-Pray as if everything depended on God, work as if everything depended on you.
-The true perfection of man is to discover his own imperfections.
-Do you aspire to achieve great things? It starts with the little ones.
-The world is a book and those who do not travel only read one page.
-There is something in humility that curiously exalts the heart.
-It was pride that turned angels into demons, it is humility that turns men into angels.
-God loves each one of us as if he were one of us.
-Find out how much God has given you and from that take what you need, the rest is needed by others.
-Patience is the company of wisdom.
-If you believe what you want from the gospels and reject what you don't like, you don't believe in the gospels but in yourself.
-Don't you think that there is such depth in man that it is hidden even from the one who contains it?
-Printed words are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
-Miracles are not contrary to nature, they are only contrary to what we know about nature.
-To discover the character of people we only have to discover what they love.
-Oh Lord, help me to be pure but not yet.
-You must be emptied of what you are full of in order to be filled where you are empty.
-He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
-The purpose of all wars is peace.
-Perfect abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
-He who is jealous is not in love.
-The confession of bad deeds is the first step towards good deeds.
-The will is to grace as the horse to the rider.
-Listen to the other side.
-I asked the whole frame of the world about my God and they replied “I am not He, but He made me.
-Do you want to move up? It begins by descending. Are you planning a tower that touches the clouds? Lay the foundation of humility first.
-Charity is no substitute for well-established justice.
-The people who remain victorious were less conquerors than conquered.
-Habits, if not resisted, soon become necessities.
-Punishment is justice for the unjust.
-Give what you order and then order what you want.
-No praise is due to someone who does his job and nothing else.
-To abstain from sin when you can no longer sin is to be abandoned by sin, not to abandon it.
-The greatest evil is physical pain.
-The desire is your prayers and if the desire does not stop, your prayer will not either. The continuity of your longing is the continuity of your prayer.
-How does love look like? He has his hands to help others, he has feet to rush to the poor and needy, he has eyes to see misery and longing, he has ears to hear the sighs and misfortunes of men. This is what love looks like.
-In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty if not organized theft?
-So what is time? If nobody asks me, I know what it is, if I want to explain it to the questioner, I don't know.
-If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, do not accept because you will lose a friend, on the other hand if two strangers make the same request, accept, because you will win a friend.
-If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
-It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
-God is better known in not knowing him.
-He who works, prays.
-The tears of regret wash away the stain of guilt.
-Pursuing the greatest good is living well.
-Oh Lord, give me chastity, but not yet.
-If we live good lives, times will also be good; as we are, will be the times.
-There is no possible source of evil, except good.
-Bliss consists in achieving our desires and having only regular desires.
-Custom is second nature.
-Doing what we must does not deserve any praise, because it is our obligation.
-The mind commands the body and it is immediately obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
-You are my Lord because you have no need of my good works.
-There is no saint without a past, nor a sinner without a future.
-The measure of love is to love without measure.
-Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
-Christ is not valued, unless he is valued above all things.
-Where is your pleasure, there is your treasure, where is your treasure, is your heart and where is your heart, is your happiness.
-Sin is energy in the wrong channel.
-Our hearts have been made by you, oh God, and they must never rest until they rest in you.
-Sin seeks the right thing in the wrong place.
-We made a bad use of immortality and we ended up dying, Christ made good use of mortality, so that we can end up living.
-Learn to dance, so that when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
-We talk, but it is God who teaches.
-God would never have done such great and wonderful things for us if the life of our soul were to end with the death of our body.
-Why don't I abandon the hopes of this world and dedicate myself completely to the search for God and to a happy life?
-What madness to love a man as something more than human!
-He who denies the existence of God, has some reason to wish that God does not exist.
-Just long for God and your heart will always be complete.
-We know that we exist in this world and we celebrate that knowledge.
-Education is always the engine of youth, the charm of old age, the decoration of prosperity, comfort and a refuge from adversity, but above all, education is the provocation that the soul has grace.
-It is not wrong to be seen by men, but merely to do things with the objective of being seen by men.
-The problem with hypocritical people is that they do not want to be holy, but they do expect to appear sacred.
-The hypocrite is always more uneasy about his reputation for justice than about becoming really just. Always the acceptance of people interests him more than the approval of God.
-Believe to understand and understand to believe.
-You don't love your opposites for what they are, but for what you want your prayers to be.
-Without God, man is not able to do it, and without man, God will not do it.
-God does not always grant us what we ask for, on some occasions He grants us more preferable moments or circumstances.
-Although a thing can be expressed convincingly, it should not necessarily be considered as true, just as a thing that can be pronounced through stuttering lips should not be assumed as false.
-Humanity is characterized by being curious to find out the life of others, but lazy to modify their own lives.
-Those who are defeated by error do not want to be defeated by the truth.
-No person is prevented from putting aside the disadvantage of ignorance and seeking with effort the advantage of knowledge.
-Love is the perfection of the soul.
-The scriptures are the salvation of all people who use them properly and are also the condemnation of all those who use them incorrectly.
-Beauty multiplies in you as love grows. Charity itself becomes the reflection and beauty of the soul.
-People travel to marvel at the giant waves of the sea, the height of the mountains, the courses of the rivers and the circular movement of the stars. But they never go through themselves to be surprised.
-The life of the body is the soul and God is also the life of the soul. Therefore, the body dies when the soul leaves it, the soul dies when God departs from it.
-If the future and the past really coexist, where do they meet?
-God adores each one of us, as if we were only one.
-The spiritual virtue of a writing is like a light and, although it passes among the infected, it is never contaminated.
-Wisdom and dementia are like herbs that cure or poison, both types can be served on any plate.
-Do you want to get up? It begins by descending. Do you have an idea in mind related to towers and clouds? The first thing you should do is become aware and arm yourself with great humility.
-It is one thing to observe the land of peace from a jungle peak, and quite another is to walk the path that leads to that land.
-I don't blame you for your involuntary ignorance, but because even up to this point you haven't asked yourself about what you don't know.
-Despite being imprisoned and mistreated, the saints have never lost earthly position, even when they are tied to violations, their own will did not surrender and their souls were never misled.
- I consider that I am one of those who write while they learn and learn while they write.
-We went to war to achieve peace, but we will never want peace for war. Always be peaceful, lead the blessings of peace, and achieve great victories through them.
-The kingdoms without justice are just a place where crime multiplies.
-He who falls does so of his own will; and whoever is standing remains always in the will of God.
-True freedom is the joy that comes from doing the right thing. At the same time, freedom is also a service dedicated to obedience.
-Obviously, it is easier to be a happy slave than a man of lust.
- Take care to put all your hopes in the man from whom you will inherit absolutely nothing.
-The truth is not part of private property.
-What does time mean? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I want to explain it to the questioner, I do not know what to answer.
-Therefore, even though a good man may be a slave, he is free; but a bad man, even though he is a king, will permanently be a slave.
-On this step taught by my parents, I will place my feet on this path, until the obvious truth comes to light.
-Having resentment is similar to drinking poison and waiting for another person to die.
-Love never gets old because it is always a new feeling.
-I have always trusted the past with God's mercy, the present with God's love and the future with his providence..
-The good Christian must be careful with mathematicians. There is a danger that mathematicians have made a pact with the devil to darken the soul and bind man to the bonds of hell.
-Free curiosity has more weight to stimulate learning than imposition. However, the flow of freedom is channeled through discipline and under certain laws.
-Life is a misery and death an uncertainty.
-There are things that are really incredible when discussed by little men, usually these things can make these men grow up and become big.
-Here we see wolves inside and sheep always outside.
-The dignity of both body and soul rests on the will strengthened by the grace of God and can never be taken away by the intentions of a person who does not want it.
-No Christian is allowed to commit suicide under any circumstances.