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Christian Quotes by Saint Augustine
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
- 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.
- 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…
- The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but…
- Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."
- Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not
- The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.
- It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem…
- Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.
- Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
- Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
- All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.
- He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father.
- Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.
- If you don't believe it you won't understand it.
- What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil…
- In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles…
- The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him, though otherwise than…
- 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…
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