Quote #95

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

More from Augustine of Hippo

  1. This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
  2. To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
  3. There is no possible source of evil except good.
  4. To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
  5. The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
  6. We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain
  7. The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
  8. We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

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