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Longer Quotes by Saint Augustine
- To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
- Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have…
- The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it…
- How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it…
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- Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
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