Quotes From "The City Of God" By Augustine Of Hippo

A community is nothing else than a harmonious collection of...
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A community is nothing else than a harmonious collection of individuals. Augustine Of Hippo
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All these last offices and ceremonies that concern the dead, the careful funeral arrangements, and the equipment of the tomb, and the pomp of obsequies, are rather the solace of the living than the comfort of the dead. Augustine Of Hippo
The end of life puts the longest life on a...
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The end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest. Augustine Of Hippo
For every man, however laudably he lives, yet yields in...
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For every man, however laudably he lives, yet yields in some points to the lust of the flesh. Augustine Of Hippo
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For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under the same flail the straw is beaten small, while the grain is cleansed; and as the lees are not mixed with the oil, though squeezed out of the vat by the same pressure, so the same violence of affliction proves, purges, clarifies the good, but damns, ruins, exterminates the wicked. And thus it is that in the same affliction the wicked detest God and blaspheme, while the good pray and praise. Augustine Of Hippo
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The good man is neither uplifted with the good things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked man, because he is corrupted by this world's happiness, feels himself punished by its unhappiness. Augustine Of Hippo
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To the divine providence it has seemed good to prepare in the world to come for the righteous good things, which the unrighteous shall not enjoy; and for the wicked evil things, by which the good shall not be tormented. Augustine Of Hippo
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For I am aware what ability is requisite to persuade the proud how great is the virtue of humility, which raises us, not by a quite human arrogance, but by a divine grace, above all earthly dignities that totter on this shifting scene. Augustine Of Hippo
Indeed, the only cause of their [Rome] perishing was that...
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Indeed, the only cause of their [Rome] perishing was that they chose for their protectors gods condemned to perish. Augustine Of Hippo
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If there is a religious agency in our lives, it has to appear in the manner of our times. Not from on high, but a revelation that hides itself in our culture, it will be ground-level, on the street, it'll be coming down the avenue in the traffic, hard to tell apart from anything else. E. L. Doctorow