Saint Augustine Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

  Saint Augustine

  Wish, Misery, Habit

• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

  Saint Augustine

  Freedom, Recovery, Catholic

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 296, 1895.

• Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

  Saint Augustine

  Catholic, Lust, Purity And Love

• How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

  Saint Augustine

  Want, Pay, Miserable

  Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.281

• It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

  Saint Augustine

  Desire, Habit, Virtuous

  St. Augustine, Saint Augustine, J. F. Shaw (2009). “On Christian Doctrine”, p.8, Courier Corporation

• I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.

  Saint Augustine

  Old Habits, Evil, Grace

  Sermons 180:10:1,

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