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1. The Theft Itself

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Saint Augustine

Near our vineyard there was a pear tree, loaded with fruit, though the fruit was not particularly attractive either in color or in taste. I and some other wretched youth conceived the idea of shaking the pears off this tree and carrying them away. We set out late that night (having, as we usually did in our depraved way, gone on playing in the streets till that hour) and stole all the fruit that ...

Saint Augustine

Before God can deliver us from ourselves we must undeceive ourselves.

Saint Augustine

There is one case of deathbed repentance recorded—that of the penitent thief, that none should despair; and only one that none should presume.

Saint Augustine

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Saint Augustine

By-and-by never comes.

Saint Augustine

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Saint Augustine

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

Saint Augustine

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.

Saint Augustine

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Saint Augustine

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Saint Augustine

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Saint Augustine

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Saint Augustine

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Saint Augustine

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Saint Augustine

He that is not jealous is not in love.

Saint Augustine

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept, because you will gain one friend.

Saint Augustine

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Saint Augustine

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Saint Augustine

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Saint Augustine

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Saint Augustine

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

Saint Augustine

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Saint Augustine

Lord, make me chaste - but not yet.

Saint Augustine

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

Saint Augustine

Love is the beauty of the soul.

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1. The Theft Itself

Illustration

Saint Augustine

Before God can deliver us from ourselves we must undeceive ourselves.

Saint Augustine

There is one case of deathbed repentance recorded—that of the penitent thief, that none should despair; and only one that none should presume.

Saint Augustine

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Saint Augustine

By-and-by never comes.

Saint Augustine

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Saint Augustine

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

Saint Augustine

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Saint Augustine

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Saint Augustine

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Saint Augustine

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Saint Augustine

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Saint Augustine

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Saint Augustine

He that is not jealous is not in love.

Saint Augustine

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept, because you will gain one friend.

Saint Augustine

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Saint Augustine

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Saint Augustine

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Saint Augustine

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Saint Augustine

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

Saint Augustine

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Saint Augustine

Lord, make me chaste - but not yet.

Saint Augustine

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

Saint Augustine

Love is the beauty of the soul.

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