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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…
- 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…
- 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.
- There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself…
- 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,…
- 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…
- What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to…
- 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.…
- Was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid…
- Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will…
- 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…
- That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you…
- Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books…
- He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.
- It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.
- 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…
- The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
- Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.
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