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... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.

… the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.
– Augustine of Hippo

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  1. You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things. – Augustine of Hippo
  2. Lord Jesus, don’t let me lie when I say that I love you…and protect me, for today I could betray you. – Augustine of Hippo
  3. it is a higher glory… to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war. – Augustine of Hippo
  4. New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people. – Anne Rice
  5. There is an earthly reality and a heavenly reality, prayer connects both. – Alin Sav
  6. We must be so heavenly minded that we are compelled to be of earthly good! – Marilynn Dawson
  7. O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds.O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope. O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit.O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  8. He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake. – Augustine of Hippo
  9. Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good? – Augustine of Hippo
  10. I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me. – Augustine of Hippo
  11. A community is nothing else than a harmonious collection of individuals. – Augustine of Hippo
  12. The end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest. – Augustine of Hippo
  13. For every man, however laudably he lives, yet yields in some points to the lust of the flesh. – Augustine of Hippo
  14. Indeed, the only cause of their [Rome] perishing was that they chose for their protectors gods condemned to perish. – Augustine of Hippo
  15. When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment – Augustine of Hippo
  16. O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. – Augustine of Hippo
  17. You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You. – Augustine of Hippo
  18. For it is one thing to see the Land of Peace from a wooded ridge, and yet another to walk the road that leads to it. – Augustine of Hippo
  19. Love the sinner and hate the sin. – Augustine of Hippo
  20. Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you. – Augustine of Hippo
  21. The world is a book, and those who don’t travel only read one page. – Augustine of Hippo
  22. God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. – Augustine of Hippo
  23. Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as it is defective, it is evil. – Augustine of Hippo
  24. The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king. – Augustine of Hippo
  25. The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them. – Augustine of Hippo
  26. Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself? – Augustine of Hippo
  27. Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place. – Augustine of Hippo
  28. Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place. – Augustine of Hippo
  29. He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner. – Augustine of Hippo
  30. There is no sin unless through a man’s own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own – Augustine of Hippo
  31. There is no sin unless through a man’s own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own – Augustine of Hippo
  32. I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want. – Augustine of Hippo
  33. Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of. – Augustine of Hippo
  34. Lavish spending cloaks the dark side of generosity – Augustine of Hippo
  35. He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother. – Augustine of Hippo
  36. A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart. Nay, even idolatry is ample evidence of this fact. – Augustine of Hippo
  37. The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder. – Augustine of Hippo
  38. That vague and wandering opinion of Deity is declared by an apostle to be ignorance of God: – Augustine of Hippo
  39. This disease of curiosity. – Augustine of Hippo
  40. For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity. – Augustine of Hippo

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