Saint Augustine Quotes

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• What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.
• Attract them by the way you live.
• I err therefore I am.
• The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the…
• The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him, though otherwise than…
• A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by…
• The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is to say, if…
• Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though…
• He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.
• The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word…
• ... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept;…
• Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so…
• He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him…
• Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.
• Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.
• Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If…
• In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.
• Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If…
• We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into…
• If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

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