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• The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Neighbor, Bounds

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• In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Usual, Study

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• Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.

  Saint Augustine

  Feet, Giving, Tree

  Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.117

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• Give what You command and command what You will.

  Saint Augustine

  Giving, Command

  'Confessions' (397-8) bk. 10, ch. 29

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• It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

  Saint Augustine

  Grace, Liberty, Virtue

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• Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

  Saint Augustine

  Law, Unjust Laws, Unjust

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• Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."

  Saint Augustine

  Father, Believe, Men

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• I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Writing, Said

  "The Confessions; The City of God; On Christian Doctrine".

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• The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Desire, Longing

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• Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)

  Saint Augustine

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• We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.

  Saint Augustine

  Existence, Knows

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• The world's verdict is conclusive.

  Saint Augustine

  World, Verdict

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• Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth.

  Saint Augustine

  Doubt, Uncertain, Existence

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• What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond.

  Saint Augustine

  Children, Baptism, Church

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• By and by never comes.

  Saint Augustine

  Time, Memories

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• There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

  Saint Augustine

  Unity, Church, Serious

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• Poetry is devil's wine.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Philosophy, Wine

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• Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Taken, Justice

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.161, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The playthings of our elders are called business.

  Saint Augustine

  Elders

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• Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.

  Saint Augustine

  Son, Catholic, Baptism

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• He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

  Saint Augustine

  Jesus, Together, Littles

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• They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.

  Saint Augustine

  Joy, Darkness, Suffering

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• To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

  Saint Augustine

  Lying, Order, Modesty

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• The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

  Saint Augustine

  Children, Soul, Littles

  "Confessions" by Saint Augustine, Book I, (7), (c. 397).

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• I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with the words of the Gospel and they received it without pretence on their part and with some degree of faith. However, it would not avail them for their spiritual salvation if they were lacking in that charity by which they might be implanted in the Catholic Church.

  Saint Augustine

  Spiritual, Long, Catholic

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