It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty:… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
