God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Quote by Saint Augustine
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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Saint Augustine Quotes
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
- He that is jealous is not in love.
- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
- 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.
- 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.
- The purpose of all wars, is peace.
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Best Quotes
- He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
- All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
- Technology favors horrible people.
- Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
- Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
- I want to help children in Serbia and around the world so they can realize their dreams.
- The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.
- Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
- I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.
- It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.