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
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word.… — 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
He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
"Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency,… — 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
It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the… — 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
On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He… — 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