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Catholicism Quotes by Saint Augustine
- I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.
- 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.
- 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…
- The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs…
- The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it…
- That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left…
- 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…
- 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;…
- It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism;…
- Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it…
- And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though…
- In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me…
- There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.
- 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…
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