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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'.»
«And behold you were within me,and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.»
«By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
abroad, collected, faithfulness, multiplicity, scattered, unity, wound, wound up
«God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.»
«Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
adulteries, adultery, caught, Caught in The Act, For some, for some reason, guilty, obvious
«My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
attained, bathed, bathes, contradictories, contradictory, extracted, extracting, extracts, find out, flash, flashed, flashing, glance, glanced, glances, glancing, hurried, hurries, images, in a flash, sensuous, The Flash, The Vision, throng, thronged, thronging, thus, wherein, withdrawing, withdraws, withdrew
«Despise not yourselves, ye women; the Son of God was born of a woman»
«No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.»
«Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Admiration,
Mankind
| Keywords:
abroad, billowing, broad, circuits, compass, heights, mountain pass, rivers, River Went, The Mighty, tides
«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.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
Cicero, heavy-laden, lade, laded, laden, lading, Plato, sayings
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