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Before Quotes by Saint Augustine
- 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.
- Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh…
- On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what…
- 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…
- Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before…
- The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every…
- You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house…
- I have said before, and shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.
- Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look…
- For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you 'today' never comes to an end: and yet our 'today' does come to an end…
- I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn…
- No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains…
- I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then…
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