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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.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
Begin, clouded, clouding, clouds, Clouds The, cloud over, descending, foundation, humility, lay, Pierce, pierces, piercing, plan, rise, The Clouds, The Foundation, tower, Towered
«I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!»
«The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
body, body mind, commands, Itself, meeting of minds, meets, obeys, orders, resistance, The Body
«Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Beauty,
Gifts
| Keywords:
dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, wicked
«Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Happiness,
Mankind
| Keywords:
as to, impossible, indeed, wishes
«Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
charities, justice, substitute, substituted, substituting, withheld, withholding, withholds
«To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
apprehension, apprehensions, belongs, eternal, intellectual, rational, temporal
«There is no possible source of evil except good.»
«A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words, ?Who can this be? Even the wind and the waves obey him.?»
«Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.»
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