Saint Augustine Quotes

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• 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…
• The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous,…
• Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought…
• Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed,…
• The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.
• It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the…
• Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics…
• I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with…
• It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the…
• He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.
• What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the Lord? These men…
• Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness…
• Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation…
• Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.
• The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or…
• The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.
• For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.
• There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.
• O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!
• Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

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