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Catholic Quotes by Saint Augustine
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- He that is jealous is not in love.
- O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come…
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
- He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
- There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
- Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
- Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances,…
- Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
- Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the…
- Punishment is justice for the unjust.
- The purpose of all wars, is peace.
- Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
- I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.
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