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
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
- 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.
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
- The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
- Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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