Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest... And of what consequence is it what kind of death puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not forced to go through the same ordeal a second time? They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.
St. Augustine
Related So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I am confident ... MARCUS J. BORG Samurai are born to die. Death is not a curse to be avoided -- but the natural end of all... RICK REMENDER We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Lo... GUY DE MAUPASSANT Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't neglect life by worrying about Death. - I don't know what is the meaning of death, but I am no... BRUCE LEE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD An unhealthy life is destined to end with an unhealthy death. NANCY S. MURE It is from the bystanders (who are in the vast majority) that we receive the propaganda that life is... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die. HOLLY BLACK Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- ... ECKHART TOLLE Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ... LISA J. SHULTZ What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,wha... LEO TOLSTOY We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they g... URSULA K. LE GUIN Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any tim... MARK TWAIN Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330 The cross is laid on every Christian... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And ye... STEVE JOBS Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an en... WILLIAM HAZLITT Death was never a problem but rather time for time ditermens when you'll die and death is only somet... ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex an... WOODY ALLEN Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s ov... JOSS WHEDON No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, d... STEVE JOBS People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w... ANTHONY LICCIONE Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life. JEANNE MOREAU First time I died on Ayahuasca I was scared to death. And then, I realized that I was no longer afra... GERARD ARMOND POWELL The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never ... LUIGI PIRANDELLO What do you think has become of the young and old men? What do you think has become of the women ... WALT WHITMAN There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive hi... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they die... SYLVIA PLATH I'm not afraid of being dead. I'm just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there. PAMELA BONE If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presentl... E.M. FORSTER How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who would not be that youth? What pity is it JOSEPH ADDISON How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL It was said that if you duped death, if you kept someone alive who should have died, then you might ... ERIK BUNDY A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his li... DON DELILLO Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make ... STEVE JOBS Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not b... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not onl... EPICURUS It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die. FERDINAND E. MARCOS We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. He who is afraid to die, has already died. VIKRANT PARSAI The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When we are rich and famous and powerful, we do not want to die. On the other hand, if we are misera... LIEZI Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's... GUY ALMES You don't tell an astronaut what to do. ATMOSPHERE You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues. CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel. CAROL PLUM-UCCI Any kind of death sentence is cruel. It doesn't matter what kind of death, I think the psychological... DOUG HOWARD If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Most men need patience to die, but a saint who understands what death admits him to should rather ne... ERIC SEVAREID I do not want to die, Croaker. All that I am shrieks against the unrighteousness of death. All that ... GLEN COOK No one wants to die or even plans to die, at least not when you are young and living life on top of ... SOFEA SHAH Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, ch... ROBIN HOBB Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't di... RAY BRADBURY Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems... RONALD BLYTHE If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction. JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON A thief stops stealing when he dies SOTONYE ANGA We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA [Watson quoted himself to the writers, telling them what he writes in notes of bereavement to others... TOM WATSON I want to die living. And I want to be remembered as one who lived with purpose, joy and feeling. I ... STEVE GOODIER Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of ... SOURCE UNKNOWN When I want to move, I remember death, how it is ultimate and inevitable, and pure. Then I am free t... D.H. LAWRENCE “Death do not disturb me, I have no fear for death. I have died thousands of time in past. My conc... DR. SHAILESH THAKER The secret of life is not in the Die And Live, The secret of life is Don't ever lose your sense... SUSHIL SINGH The tragedy of life is not death, but fearing to live, allowing parts of us to wilt and die instead ... KILROY J. OLDSTER Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are u... SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are u... SENECA I am the woman who lost herself but now is found, the lesbian, outside the law of the church and man... DOROTHY ALLISON Another year is ending, but something is pending ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Never mourn the rich but stingy persons when they die,rather be glad that death has taught them to g... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Death is nothing but the body of a dead who has just died. VIKRANT PARSAI Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story... HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Life is a misery, death an uncertainty. Suppose it steals suddenly upon me, in what state shall I le... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to die in a fire of su... That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers w... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not t... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA I was born in a hospital. I do not want to die in one. J.R. RIM Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can yo... J.R.R. TOLKIEN A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we fin... CARL SANDBURG Death is not the end... But death is our goal of our life... LIONY LUMOMBO VON TIRAMISU Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 In that age they wil... TERTULLIAN Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony. JACK KEVORKIAN Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW
More St. Augustine
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. ST AUGUSTINE Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet ST. AUGUSTINE Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ST. AUGUSTINE Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t... ST. AUGUSTINE Punishment is justice for the unjust. ST. AUGUSTINE The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered. ST. AUGUSTINE God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his p... ST. AUGUSTINE Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt. ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bis... ST. AUGUSTINE If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: fo... ST. AUGUSTINE Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment. ST. AUGUSTINE The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home. ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 One can say: "I will, but my body does not ob... ST. AUGUSTINE God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should s... ST. AUGUSTINE Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws... ST. AUGUSTINE Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: ... ST. AUGUSTINE God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastin... ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 The truth is neither mi... ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 But when does flesh receive the bread which He ... ST. AUGUSTINE What is Christ's joy in us, but that He deigns to rejoice on our account? And what is our Joy, which... ST. AUGUSTINE Picture God as saying to you, "My son, why is it that day by day you rise, and pray, and genuflect, ... ST. AUGUSTINE To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ST. AUGUSTINE Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? ST. AUGUSTINE I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. ST. AUGUSTINE People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long course... ST. AUGUSTINE At the resurrection the substance of our bodies, however disintegrated, will be united. We must not ... ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi... ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, wit... ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 What art Thou then, my God? What, but the Lor... ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 It is not that we keep His commandments f... ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 None can become fit for the future life, who h... ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 We need not despair of any man, s... ST. AUGUSTINE Whoever has Christ in his heart, so that no earthly or temporal things -- not even those that are le... ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar... ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Ye have enemies; for who can live on this earth... ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Other sins find their ... ST. AUGUSTINE When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not becau... ST. AUGUSTINE But when does flesh receive the bread which He calls His flesh? The faithful know and receive the Bo... ST. AUGUSTINE God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. ST. AUGUSTINE Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. ST. AUGUSTINE Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ST. AUGUSTINE And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departe... ST AUGUSTINE This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection. ST AUGUSTINE To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE Give me chastity and continence, but not quite yet. ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE The greatest evil is physical pain. ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered,'' I am not He, but He made me.'' ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet. ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new! ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be goo... ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO None save great men have been the authors of great heresies. AUGUSTINE The world is a great big book, of which those who never travel read only one page. AUGUSTINE Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not... SAINT AUGUSTINE Custom is second nature. SAINT AUGUSTINE The verdict of the world is conclusive. SAINT AUGUSTINE He who labours, prays. SAINT AUGUSTINE Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt. SAINT AUGUSTINE Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. SAINT AUGUSTINE If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I alr... SAINT AUGUSTINE I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. SAINT AUGUSTINE Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it... SAINT AUGUSTINE No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. SAINT AUGUSTINE The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. SAINT AUGUSTINE The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? SAINT AUGUSTINE Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t... SAINT AUGUSTINE If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe. SAINT AUGUSTINE We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. SAINT AUGUSTINE We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. SAINT AUGUSTINE There is no possible source of evil except good. SAINT AUGUSTINE The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not po... SAINT AUGUSTINE A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. SAINT AUGUSTINE Hear the other side. SAINT AUGUSTINE Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of h... SAINT AUGUSTINE To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. SAINT AUGUSTINE Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation... SAINT AUGUSTINE The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to... SAINT AUGUSTINE God is best known in not knowing him. SAINT AUGUSTINE The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without cea... SAINT AUGUSTINE My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of se... SAINT AUGUSTINE To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. SAINT AUGUSTINE If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times. SAINT AUGUSTINE To seek the highest good is to live well. SAINT AUGUSTINE The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. SAINT AUGUSTINE Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s... SAINT AUGUSTINE I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in e... SAINT AUGUSTINE Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by other... SAINT AUGUSTINE He fashioned hell for the inquisitive. SAINT AUGUSTINE 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 ... SAINT AUGUSTINE He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. SAINT AUGUSTINE Love is the beauty of the soul. SAINT AUGUSTINE Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet. SAINT AUGUSTINE God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. SAINT AUGUSTINE Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider. SAINT AUGUSTINE Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses ... SAINT AUGUSTINE By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scatt... SAINT AUGUSTINE Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. SAINT AUGUSTINE In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. SAINT AUGUSTINE It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. SAINT AUGUSTINE Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn ... SAINT AUGUSTINE The purpose of all wars, is peace. SAINT AUGUSTINE Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. SAINT AUGUSTINE Love, and do what you like. SAINT AUGUSTINE God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. SAINT AUGUSTINE If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on th... SAINT AUGUSTINE This world's a bubble. SAINT AUGUSTINE Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee. SAINT AUGUSTINE He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. SAINT AUGUSTINE Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. SAINT AUGUSTINE If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospe... SAINT AUGUSTINE History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste... AUGUSTINE BIRRELL An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one... AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Is this true or only clever? AUGUSTINE BIRRELL A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good... AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Libraries are not made, they grow AUGUSTINE BIRRELL History is a pageant, not a philosophy. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured t... NORMAN AUGUSTINE Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. JAMES AUGUSTINE An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one pla... AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL One of the most feared expressions in modern times is The computer is down NORMAN AUGUSTINE The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. SAINT AUGUSTINE It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. JAMES AUGUSTINE Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of ... SAINT AUGUSTINE As certain as the Correggiosity of Correggio. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. SAINT AUGUSTINE Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. SAINT AUGUSTINE Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws... SAINT AUGUSTINE I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so SAINT AUGUSTINE Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbou... SAINT AUGUSTINE Unless you believe, you will not understand. SAINT AUGUSTINE The argument is at an end. SAINT AUGUSTINE Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, ... SAINT AUGUSTINE Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ... SAINT AUGUSTINE Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. SAINT AUGUSTINE Patience is the companion of wisdom. SAINT AUGUSTINE What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and... SAINT AUGUSTINE The greatest evil is physical pain. SAINT AUGUSTINE It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. SAINT AUGUSTINE Punishment is justice for the unjust. SAINT AUGUSTINE Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. SAINT AUGUSTINE Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long cours... SAINT AUGUSTINE Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Th... SAINT AUGUSTINE Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. SAINT AUGUSTINE What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful ... SAINT AUGUSTINE That great dust-heap called 'history'. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwell... SAINT AUGUSTINE Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. SAINT AUGUSTINE In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? SAINT AUGUSTINE God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. SAINT AUGUSTINE People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, at
the huge waves of the seas, at the long cou... AUGUSTINE SAINT You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones. AUGUSTINE SAINT You can't go down 1-2-3 in two innings in a game like that. You can't after spending the past two da... AUGUSTINE RUIZ I don't know what to expect. I would just like us to go out there and play hard. We have some good t... AUGUSTINE RUIZ Carl can play anywhere because he is so versatile. John has done a good job of showing me that he wa... AUGUSTINE RUIZ I am not satisfied with going from blowout losses to just losses. We are getting better as a team, b... AUGUSTINE RUIZ I think the team is still hung up on what happened in Santa Rosa. AUGUSTINE RUIZ I think it was one and fifteen? AUGUSTINE RUIZ The kid's got a rocket for an arm. He's played in the outfield, but he wanted to try shortstop, and ... AUGUSTINE RUIZ They will be our horses for us on the mound. They are the only returning players that have any exper... AUGUSTINE RUIZ Why do you object to war? Surely not, because men, who eventually die anyway, are killed in war? St AUGUSTINE HIPPO Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. AUGUSTINE HIPPO Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, an... AUGUSTINE HIPPO Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ... AUGUSTINE HIPPO He was at least seven yards offside. AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN It's back to the drawing board and planning for the future. AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN We want to compensate for missing the World Cup. We have paid back Tunisia, and we want to do the sa... AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN We have the ingredients to make up for the last three or four Nations Cups where we have not won the... AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN I want to assure you that we'll work as a team and make sure we secure the three points in the remai... AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN We paid for underrating Zimbabwe and Angola. We now have the chance to prove ourselves again. AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN He's still got all the qualities and I try to bring him on for at least one hour. AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN We could have been 3-0 down at halftime and in the second half as well. AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN We want to compensate for missing out on the World Cup and also for not winning the Nations Cup for ... AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN I am waiting for further instructions from the coaches but we shall see how it will go. AUGUSTINE CHOGE I don't know how to describe myself, I'm so happy. AUGUSTINE CHOGE I was just relaxing because the top athletes who should have made the race faster were not there. AUGUSTINE CHOGE I've beaten him once and he's beaten me once, he's a very good runner. AUGUSTINE CHOGE I am ready to double in Commonwealth Games and world cross-country championships if given the chance... AUGUSTINE CHOGE To Carthage I came, where there sang all around my ears a cauldron of unholy loves. SAINT AUGUSTINE We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. SAINT AUGUSTINE He that is jealous is not in love. SAINT AUGUSTINE I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him. SAINT AUGUSTINE There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. SAINT AUGUSTINE Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first th... SAINT AUGUSTINE Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. SAINT AUGUSTINE It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. SAINT AUGUSTINE Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr. SAINT AUGUSTINE Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. SAINT AUGUSTINE Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is ha... SAINT AUGUSTINE God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined. SAINT AUGUSTINE We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with se... SAINT AUGUSTINE It really hasn't settled in yet that it's almost over. It seems like yesterday that we just got here... JAMES AUGUSTINE