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Among Quotes by Saint Augustine
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
- It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the…
- 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…
- It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation;…
- Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself…
- 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…
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