One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it. — Saint Augustine Copy Share
“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.” — Saint Augustine Copy Share
Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself. — Saint Augustine Copy Share
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