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From 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.
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
- To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was…
- I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
- The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.
- Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways…
- Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary
- In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.
- Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to…
- He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who…
- Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of…
- One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we…
- Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed,…
- It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the…
- I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with…
- Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
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