Saint Augustine Quotes About Difficulty

Quotes about: Difficulty

• You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

  Saint Augustine

  Running, Fire, Going Away

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.138, Oxford Paperbacks

• There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.

  Saint Augustine

  Powerful, Passion, Sleep

• To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Heart, Justice

• Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

  Saint Augustine

  Evil, Coping, Difficulty

• Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

  Saint Augustine

  Blow, Nails, Done

• Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?

  Saint Augustine

  Ignorant, Remember, Forget

  SAINT AUGUSTINE (1952). “THE CONFESSIONS THE CITY OF GOD ON CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE”

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