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I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people.
— St. Augustine of Hippo Confessions
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Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
— St. Augustine of Hippo Confessions
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Most hidden, yet most present.
— St. Augustine of Hippo The Confessions Of St.Augustine
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The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)
— St. Augustine of Hippo
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
— St. Augustine of Hippo
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I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.
— St. Augustine of Hippo Confessions
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