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Law Quotes by Saint Augustine
- It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
- 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…
- In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for…
- The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or…
- The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.
- 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…
- Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.
- Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
- The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.
- Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
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