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1 Int | that it is capable of doing good. It relieves man’s religious
2 Int, 1 | balance between faith and good works in the forgiven sinner.
3 Int, 1 | Augustine feels he must devote a good deal of energy and subtle
4 Int, 1 | books, even though many good ones already exist. Every
5 Int, 1 | Cambridge, 1927).~There are two good critical texts of the Enchiridion
6 Int, 1 | praise the righteous and good God as they speak either
7 Int, 1 | speak either of my evil or good, and they are meant to excite
8 Int, 1 | Confessions and use them as a good man should - not superficially,
9 1, V | may embrace thee, my only good? What art thou to me? Have
10 1, VI | abundantly. It was, indeed, good for them that my good should
11 1, VI | indeed, good for them that my good should come through them,
12 1, VI | from thee, O God, that all good things come - and from my
13 1, VI | because what I got was not good for me - I grew indignant
14 1, VII | is wise who cast away the good when trying to purge the
15 1, VII | purge the bad. Nor was it good, even in that time, to strive
16 1, VII | capricious desires. Was it a good thing for me to try, by
17 1, VII | art God, omnipotent and good, even if thou hadst done
18 1, X | were - I might have put to good account afterward. I disobeyed
19 1, XI | it be thy will, to what good end my baptism was deferred
20 1, XI | time? Was it indeed for my good that the reins were slackened,
21 1, XII | to it just the same, and good was done for me, even though
22 1, XII | even if what he does is a good thing. Neither did they
23 1, XII | forced me do well, but the good that was done me came from
24 1, XII | numbered, didst use for my good the error of all who pushed
25 1, XVI | it I was called a boy of good promise.~
26 1, XIX | most excellent and most good, thou Architect and Governor
27 1, XIX | myself. Moreover, they are good, and they all together constitute
28 1, XIX | together constitute myself. Good, then, is he that made me,
29 1, XIX | rejoice exceedingly for every good gift which, even as a boy,
30 2, II | spare you,”42 and, “It is good for a man not to touch a
31 2, III | who art the one true and good Lord of my heart, which
32 2, V | the better and the higher good - neglecting thee, O our
33 2, VI | O Creator of all, O thou good God - God the highest good
34 2, VI | good God - God the highest good and my true good.53 Those
35 2, VI | highest good and my true good.53 Those pears were truly
36 2, VI | entered my mouth, the only good flavor it had was my sin
37 2, VI | most lavish giver of all good things. Covetousness desires
38 3, II | to grieve about. For if good will were to be ill will -
39 3, IV | thy Spirit, spoken by thy good and pious servant: “Beware
40 3, VI | sake of thy love, O Highest Good, and my Father, O Beauty
41 3, VI(65) | elaborate cosmogony in which good was co-ordinated with light
42 3, VII | nothing but a privation of good (that, indeed, it has no
43 3, VII | that righteousness to which good and holy men submitted,
44 3, VIII | more, by loving our own good more than thee, the common
45 3, VIII | more than thee, the common good of all.~
46 3, IX | making progress toward the good. When these are judged rightly
47 3, XI | heart? O thou Omnipotent Good, thou carest for every one
48 3, XII | unlearn evil and to learn the good81 - for it was his habit
49 4, III | condemn their art.~It is good to confess to thee and to
50 4, XII | Where are you going? The good that you love is from him,
51 4, XII | also for him, it is both good and pleasant. But it will
52 4, XIII(105)| theories. Cf. The Nature of the Good Against the Manicheans,
53 4, XIV | follow that because the good horse is admired by a man
54 4, XV | of truth and the highest good. But I imagined that in
55 4, XV | supreme and unchangeable good.~25. For just as in violent
56 4, XV | if I did not put them to good use? I did not realize that
57 4, XV | houndlike, against thee. What good was it for me that my nimble
58 4, XV | it is all unstable. Our good lives forever with thee,
59 4, XV | overturned, because with thee our good lives without blemish -
60 4, XV | without blemish - for our good is thee thyself. And we
61 5, VI | sect as were written in good Latin. With this meager
62 5, VII | were better or at least as good as the mathematical explanations
63 5, VIII | had established for the good of his pupils. Many outrages
64 5, IX | any changing or fleeting good, but for the salvation of
65 5, X | compelled me to believe that the good God never created any evil
66 5, X | more contracted and the good more expansive. And from
67 5, XII | fullness of our positive good, and our most pure peace.
68 5, XII | that they should become good for thy sake.~
69 5, XIII | welcomed my coming as a good bishop should. And I began
70 6, II | frequented the church with good works, “fervent in spirit.”153
71 6, III | doubtless, in such a man, a good one. ~4. But actually I
72 6, IV | to trust himself with a good one, so it was with the
73 6, VI | gotten his wine by giving good wishes to the passers-by
74 6, VI | this effect I said to my good companions, and I saw how
75 6, VII | because I appeared to him good and learned, and I esteemed
76 6, XII | honor in the ordering of a good married life and the bringing
77 6, XVI | Nebridius, the nature of good and evil, maintaining that,
78 6, III | himself? And if he was a good angel who by his own wicked
79 6, III | became a devil, since a good Creator made him wholly
80 6, III | Creator made him wholly a good angel? By these reflections
81 6, IV | art the highest and best good.179 And since most truly
82 6, IV | God, and what he wills is good, and he himself is that
83 6, IV | and he himself is that good. But to be corrupted is
84 6, IV | But to be corrupted is not good. Nor art thou compelled
85 6, V | God hath created!” God is good, yea, most mightily and
86 6, V | works. But yet he who is good has created them good; behold
87 6, V | is good has created them good; behold how he encircles
88 6, V | it come, since God who is good has made all these things
89 6, V | has made all these things good? Indeed, he is the greatest
90 6, V | the greatest and chiefest Good, and hath created these
91 6, V | Creator and created are all good. Whence, then, is evil?
92 6, V | he did not convert into good? But why should this be?
93 6, V | sovereign, and infinite Good? Or, if it were not good
94 6, V | Good? Or, if it were not good that he who was good should
95 6, V | not good that he who was good should not also be the framer
96 6, V | and creator of what was good, then why was that evil
97 6, V | nothing, so that he might form good matter, out of which he
98 6, V | able to create something good without being assisted by
99 6, VI | of curiosity. He knew a good, deal about it, which, he
100 6, VI | family in its own city, a good birth, a proper education,
101 6, IX(201) | appropriating whatever was good and true from the pagan
102 6, XI | remains immutable. It is good, then, for me to hold fast
103 6, XII | to me that all things are good even if they are corrupted.
104 6, XII | corrupted if they were supremely good; but unless they were good
105 6, XII | good; but unless they were good they could not be corrupted.
106 6, XII | If they were supremely good, they would be incorruptible;
107 6, XII | incorruptible; if they were not good at all, there would be nothing
108 6, XII | corrupted is thereby deprived of good. But if they are deprived
109 6, XII | they are deprived of all good, they will cease to be.
110 6, XII | maintain that by losing all good they have become better?
111 6, XII | they are deprived of all good, they will cease to exist.
112 6, XII | are, therefore, they are good. Therefore, whatsoever is,
113 6, XII | Therefore, whatsoever is, is good. Evil, then, the origin
114 6, XII | a substance, it would be good. For either it would be
115 6, XII | substance and so a supreme good, or a corruptible substance,
116 6, XII | corrupted unless it were good. I understood, therefore,
117 6, XII | that thou madest all things good, nor is there any substance
118 6, XII | equal, each by itself is good, and the sum of all of them
119 6, XII | sum of all of them is very good, for our God made all things
120 6, XII | God made all things very good.207~
121 6, XII(207) | positive character of the good. This is a fundamental premise
122 6, XIII | harmonize with others and are good, and in themselves are good.
123 6, XIII | good, and in themselves are good. And all these things which
124 6, XVI | which thou hast created good, fitting in as they do with
125 6, XVI | becoming bloated with external good.210~
126 7, I | into my mind, and it seemed good in my own sight, to go to
127 7, I | not been able, from the good things that are seen, to
128 7, I | seen, to find him who is good. But I was no longer fettered
129 7, III | CHAPTER III~ ~6. O good God, what happens in a man
130 7, III | seasons - to all the kinds of good things and to all thy just
131 7, IV | profitable to the Lord for every good work.”247~
132 7, VI | the city’s walls, full of good brothers under the fostering
133 7, VIII | was, but not knowing what good thing I was so shortly to
134 7, X | kinds of minds in us: one good, the other evil. They are
135 7, X | and they shall become good only when they come to hold
136 7, X | here are two natures - one good, drawing this way, another
137 7, X | them can be anything but good. Suppose, then, that one
138 7, X | leads to our church is as good as that which carries their
139 7, X | they say, that there is one good and another bad. Else they
140 7, X | opposing principles, the one good and the other bad. Thus,
141 7, X | applies as in the action of good wills. For I ask them, “
142 7, X | For I ask them, “Is it a good thing to have delight in
143 7, X | the apostle, or is it a good thing to delight in a sober
144 7, X | sober psalm, or is it a good thing to discourse on the
145 7, X | they will answer, “It is good.” But what, then, if all
146 7, X | choose? Yet they are all good, and are at variance with
147 7, XI | full of a multitude of good examples - to receive and
148 7, XII | strengthened, and by exercising his good resolution and purpose -
149 8, I | will? But thou, O Lord, art good and merciful, and thy right
150 8, II | opposes under the guise of good counsel, and devours what
151 8, II | my conversion so that my good should be evil spoken of?~
152 8, IV | eyes and voice when thy good Spirit turned to us and
153 8, IV | sin. Yes, to be angry with good cause, for it was not another
154 8, IV | righteous judgment. Nor were the good things I saw now outside
155 8, IV | say, “Who will show us any good?” And we would answer, and
156 8, IV | said, “Who will show us any good?” But even there, in the
157 8, VIII | mother did not attribute this good training of hers as much
158 8, VIII | and who also workest some good for our salvation, through
159 8, VIII | repayest them, not for the good thou workest through their
160 8, IX | wonderful sweetness of mutual good will.~21. This other great
161 8, IX | God, my Mercy, upon that good handmaid of thine, in whose
162 8, IX | This might seem a small good to me if I did not know
163 8, IX | was highly reputed for good works, and brought up her
164 8, XII | assured by the witness of her good life, her “faith unfeigned,”304
165 8, XII | to me that it would be a good thing to go and bathe, for
166 8, XIII | forgetting for a little her good deeds for which I give joyful
167 9, III | will please those who are good to hear about the past errors
168 9, III | the love by which they are good tells them that I am not
169 9, IV | them be refreshed by my good deeds and sigh over my evil
170 9, IV | sigh over my evil ones. My good deeds are thy acts and thy
171 9, IV | Selfsame who art all my good. Thou art the Omnipotent,
172 9, XVII | find thee, who art the true Good and the steadfast Sweetness?
173 9, XXI | call to mind with longing good and honest things, which
174 9, XXVIII | sorrows contend with my good joys, and on which side
175 9, XXX | I have confessed unto my good Lord, rejoicing with trembling
176 9, XXXI | givest us, and whatever good we receive before we prayed
177 9, XXXI | 46. Thou hast taught me, good Father, that “to the pure
178 9, XXXI | every creature of thine is good, and nothing is to be refused
179 9, XXXI | every kind of flesh that was good for food; that Elijah was
180 9, XXXIII | your inward feelings that good results always come forth.
181 9, XXXIV | make all these things very good indeed. He is still my good,
182 9, XXXIV | good indeed. He is still my good, and not these. The pleasures
183 9, XXXVI | satisfy my desires with good things.”381 It was thou
184 9, XXXVII | right, is the companion of a good life and of good works,
185 9, XXXVII | companion of a good life and of good works, we should as little
186 9, XXXVII | its companionship as the good life itself. But unless
187 9, XXXVII | anything to my joy for any good I have. Yet I admit that
188 9, XXXVII | not understand or what is good. For I am sometimes grieved
189 9, XXXVII | for him, but because the good things that please me in
190 9, XXXVII | the sake of my neighbor’s good. And whether this is actually
191 9, XXXIX | pleasure in things that are not good as if they were good, but
192 9, XXXIX | not good as if they were good, but taking pleasure in
193 9, XXXIX | but taking pleasure in thy good things as if they were their
194 9, XLIII | How hast thou loved us, O good Father, who didst not spare
195 10, I | Lord my God - for “Thou art good and thy mercy endureth forever.”409~
196 10, IV | are beautiful. Thou art good, thus they are good. Thou
197 10, IV | art good, thus they are good. Thou art; thus they are.
198 10, IV | not as beautiful, nor as good, nor as truly real as thou
199 10, IV | are neither beautiful nor good, nor do they even exist.
200 10, VIII | eternal Truth, in which the good and only Master teacheth
201 10, IX | shalt satisfy my desire with good things so that my youth
202 10, XXII | enigma. O Lord my God, O good Father, I beseech thee through
203 10, XXII | truly knowest how to give good gifts to thy children, give
204 11, VII | for thou art Almighty and Good, and able to make all things
205 11, VII | able to make all things good: even the great heaven and
206 11, XV | him alone who is supremely good, because he is supreme?” “
207 11, XV | rises to what is forever good and cleaves fast to God.”~“
208 11, XVI | the one supreme and true Good! And I will not be turned
209 11, XVIII | out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned.”485
210 11, XXII | things are, and are very good - because we hold that what
211 11, XXII | endowed with form is a higher good; and we also hold that what
212 11, XXII | form, though it is a lesser good, is still a good. But the
213 11, XXII | lesser good, is still a good. But the Scripture has not
214 11, XXVIII | all things were made very good, whether they remain around
215 11, XXX | Yet those little ones of good hope are not frightened
216 11, XXXII | anything lie hid from “thy good Spirit” who shall “lead
217 11, XXXII | one, true, certain, and good sense that thou shalt inspire,
218 12, I | hast anticipated all my good deserts so as to recompense
219 12, I | me, nor am I the kind of good entity which could be a
220 12, II | the end that the created good might not fail to be, even
221 12, II | thee, the one sovereign Good. What have they deserved
222 12, II | immutably wise. But the true good of every created thing is
223 12, IV | have been lacking in thy good, which thou thyself art,
224 12, IV | their perfection. For thy good Spirit which moved over
225 12, IV(510) | the Demiurge-Creator] was good: and in the good no jealousy . . .
226 12, IV(510) | Demiurge-Creator] was good: and in the good no jealousy . . . can ever
227 12, IV | them. For those in whom thy good Spirit is said to rest he
228 12, IX | toward that place, and thy good Spirit lifts our lowliness
229 12, IX | with thy fire - with thy good fire524 - and we go forward
230 12, IX | the Lord.”526 There thy good pleasure will settle us
231 12, XV | understand these things, O good Father. Grant this to me,
232 12, XVII(582)| sees an analogy between the good earth bearing its fruits
233 12, XVIII | forth from the earth how good it is. Thus let our temporal
234 12, XIX | rich man who asked of the good Teacher what he should do
235 12, XIX | attain eternal life. Let the good Teacher (whom the rich man
236 12, XIX | give him an answer - he is good for he is God. Let him answer
237 12, XIX | you have heard from the good Teacher. But “the barren
238 12, XXI | living soul” there shall be good beasts, acting meekly. For
239 12, XXI | And the cattle will be good, for if they eat much they
240 12, XXI | And the serpents will be good, not poisonous to do harm,
241 12, XXI | ways, they live and become good.~
242 12, XXII | you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect
243 12, XXII | guidance, he proves what is thy good and acceptable and perfect
244 12, XXIII | workmanship, created in good works (not only those who
245 12, XXVI | bringing forth the fruits of good works. And now Paul rejoices
246 12, XXVI | returned once again to these good works, and he is made glad
247 12, XXVI | But “the fruit” is the good and right will of the giver.
248 12, XXVI | will of the giver. For the good Teacher not only said, “
249 12, XXVIII | and, behold, it was very good.646 We also see the whole
250 12, XXVIII | behold, it is all very good. In each separate kind of
251 12, XXVIII | thou didst see that it was good. I have counted seven times
252 12, XXVIII | what thou hadst made was “good.” And there is the eighth
253 12, XXVIII | behold, they were not only good but also very good; for
254 12, XXVIII | only good but also very good; for they were now seen
255 12, XXVIII | Individually they were only good; but taken as a totality
256 12, XXVIII | totality they were both good and very good. Beautiful
257 12, XXVIII | were both good and very good. Beautiful bodies express
258 12, XXIX | didst see thy works were good, when they were pleasing
259 12, XXIX | day thou didst see to be good; and when I counted them
260 12, XXXI | see that these things are good, it is thou who seest that
261 12, XXXI | who seest that they are good; and whatsoever things are
262 12, XXXI | Spirit of God that a thing is good; it is not they who see,
263 12, XXXI | God who seeth that it is good.~It is, therefore, one thing
264 12, XXXI | something to be bad when it is good, as do those whom we have
265 12, XXXI | that a man should see as good what is good - as is the
266 12, XXXI | should see as good what is good - as is the case with many
267 12, XXXI | creation pleases because it is good, yet what pleases them in
268 12, XXXI | a man sees a thing to be good, God should see in him that
269 12, XXXI | should see in him that it is good - that truly he may be loved
270 12, XXXI | see whatever we see to be good in any degree, since it
271 12, XXXII | see, and each of them is good; and the whole is very good!~
272 12, XXXII | good; and the whole is very good!~
273 12, XXXIV | things taken separately are good, and all things taken together
274 12, XXXIV | taken together are very good, both in heaven and earth.
275 12, XXXIV | away from thee, and thy good Spirit was moving over us
276 12, XXXIV | should themselves bring forth good things, profitable for their
277 12, XXXIV | things, and they are very good, because thou seest them
278 12, XXXV | array of things, all so very good, will pass away when all
279 12, XXXV | creation, which were very good, thou didst rest on the
280 12, XXXV | and they also are very good because thou hast given
281 12, XXXVIII | our minds that they are good. But thou sawest them as
282 12, XXXVIII | But thou, O the one good God, hast never ceased to
283 12, XXXVIII | hast never ceased to do good! And we have accomplished
284 12, XXXVIII | have accomplished certain good works by thy good gifts,
285 12, XXXVIII | certain good works by thy good gifts, and even though they
286 12, XXXVIII | sanctification. But thou art the Good, and needest no rest, and
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