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Orthodox Quotes by Saint Augustine
- 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…
- The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is to say, if…
- Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though…
- He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.
- The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word…
- ... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept;…
- Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so…
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- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six… — Mortimer Adler
- The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant
- (When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the… — Carl Sagan
- If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and… — Robert D. Brinsmead
- I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to… — William Howard Taft
- Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It… — George Orwell
- The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll