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Been Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
- By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
- The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
- 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…
- It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the…
- As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world,…
- What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to…
- What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to…
- Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and…
- As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when…
- Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.
- An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the…
- Was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid…
- The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.
- 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…
- In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept…
- That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you…
- They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were…
- None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
- For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set…
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