--- title: "3 Council Quotes By Saint Augustine" description: "3 Council quotes by Saint Augustine. Plus more from Saint Augustine and more Council sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a4/saint-augustine-328_annuals_as-to-those-other-things-which-we-hold-o_2154348.png" --- > [As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/as-to-those-other-things-which-we-hold-on-the-authority-not-of/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a4/saint-augustine-328_annuals_as-to-those-other-things-which-we-hold-o_2154348.png) > [ What the universal Church holds, not as instituted \[invented\] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/what-the-universal-church-holds-not-as-instituted-invented-by/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89b/saint-augustine-328_able_what-the-universal-church-holds-not-as-i_2758669.png) > [What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/what-is-held-by-the-whole-church-and-that-not-as-instituted-by/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d28/saint-augustine-328_authority_what-is-held-by-the-whole-church-and-tha_3000983.jpg) ## Other authors on Council ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/council/saint-augustine/#itemlist", "name": "3 Council Quotes By Saint Augustine", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world, it may be understood that they are held as approved and instituted either by the apostles themselves, or by plenary Councils, whose authority in the Church is most useful, e.g. the annual commemoration, by special solemnities, of the Lord's passion, resurrection, and ascension, and of the descent of the Holy Spirit from heaven, and whatever else is in like manner observed by the whole Church wherever it has been established.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Saint Augustine" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/as-to-those-other-things-which-we-hold-on-the-authority-not-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a4/saint-augustine-328_annuals_as-to-those-other-things-which-we-hold-o_2154348.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a4/saint-augustine-328_annuals_as-to-those-other-things-which-we-hold-o_2154348.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a4/saint-augustine-328_annuals_as-to-those-other-things-which-we-hold-o_2154348.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are…” — Saint Augustine", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. 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