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Religion Quotes by Saint Augustine
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
- O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
- There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try…
- Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it…
- Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
- The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.
- Every infinity... is made finite to God.
- Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down…
- Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should…
- Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
- God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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