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title: "4 Confession Quotes By Saint Augustine"
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> [The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/the-confession-of-evil-works-is-the-first-beginning-of-good-works/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

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> [For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/for-whenever-unbaptized-persons-die-confessing-christ-this-confession/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

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> [If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/if-you-excuse-yourself-in-confession-you-shut-up-sin-within-your-soul/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

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> [In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/in-failing-to-confess-lord-i-would-only-hide-you-from-myself-not/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

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## More by Saint Augustine

> [Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/lust-indulged-became-habit-and-habit-unresisted-became-necessity/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

> [The playthings of our elders are called business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/the-playthings-of-our-elders-are-called-business/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

> [Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/do-what-you-can-and-pray-for-what-you-cannot-yet-do/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

> [For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/for-i-did-not-know-that-the-soul-needs-to-be-enlightened-by-light/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

> [My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/my-mother-spoke-of-christ-to-my-father-by-her-feminine-and-childlike/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

> [Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/wicked-sons-do-not-have-the-holy-ghost-in-the-same-way-as-do-beloved/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

> [To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/to-wisdom-belongs-the-intellectual-apprehension-of-things-eternal-to/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

> [It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/it-is-this-one-spirit-who-makes-it-possible-for-an-infant-to-be/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

> [God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/god-has-no-need-of-your-money-but-the-poor-have-you-give-it-to-the/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

> [Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/nothing-conquers-except-truth-and-the-victory-of-truth-is-love/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

> [“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/o-god-who-is-ever-at-work-and-ever-at-rest-may-i-be-ever-at-work-and/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

> [Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/our-lord-reserved-to-himself-certain-things-which-he-would-do-in-due/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

> [Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/give-me-chastity-and-continence-but-not-yet/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

> [Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/nothing-therefore-happens-unless-the-omnipotent-wills-it-to-happen-he/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

> [The reward of patience Is patience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/the-reward-of-patience-is-patience/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

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