Augustine of Hippo quotes - page 3

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light: although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. (Augustine of Hippo)
There is no salvation outside the church. View quote
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There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith. View quote
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. View quote
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Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are. View quote
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Christ is not valued at all unless He be valued above all. View quote
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? View quote
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The dove loves when it quarrels the wolf hates when it flatters. View quote
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The verdict of the world is conclusive. View quote
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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. View quote
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving. (Augustine of Hippo)
Singing is of a lover. View quote
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself. View quote
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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. View quote
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I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so. View quote
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The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven. View quote
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Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son. View quote
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Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not. View quote
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. View quote
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. View quote
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. (Augustine of Hippo)
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ. View quote
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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. View quote
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Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: ‘Forgive us our debts,' because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness. View quote
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. View quote
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