Saint Augustine Quotes

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• What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who…
• Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
• He who created you without you will not justify you without you.
• Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of…
• Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
• All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.
• Charity is the root of all good works.
• Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?
• It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
• Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.
• When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.
• It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral…
• People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.
• There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive…
• For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt…
• The world's verdict is conclusive.
• God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless…
• In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.
• To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.
• Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

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