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His Own Quotes by Saint Augustine
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
- For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence…
- No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.
- 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…
- Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and…
- The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life.…
- He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.
- 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…
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