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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Saint Augustine
Forgiveness, Sin, Remission

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

Saint Augustine
Truth, Excellent, Ifs
"On Free Choice of the Will". Book by Saint Augustine, 395 AD.

Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

Saint Augustine
Life, Art, Men

Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

Saint Augustine
Silence, Cry, Refrain

The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

Saint Augustine
Damnation, Use, Salvation

We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

Saint Augustine
Giving, Interpretation, Ridicule
"'De genesi ad litteram libri duodecim' ('The Literal Meaning of Genesis')". Book by Augustine, Part I, www.newadvent.org. 415.

One can't reach the Truth but through Love.

Saint Augustine
Trough

Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.

Saint Augustine
Men, Cities, People

A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot

Saint Augustine
Christian, Feet, Should

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

Saint Augustine
Success, Personality, Achievement

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

Saint Augustine
Peace, War, Politics

You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

Saint Augustine
Hurt, Self Love, Enemy

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

Saint Augustine
Long, Soul, Doe
Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.151, OUP Oxford

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

Saint Augustine
World, Evolution, Creation
Saint Augustine (2014). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.119, Open Road Media

The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

Saint Augustine
Men, Church, Doe
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.5687, Aeterna Press

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, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.

Saint Augustine
Unity, Benefits, Body

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Saint Augustine
Philosophical, Punishment, Justice

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

Saint Augustine
Bible, Christian, Yield

The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.

Saint Augustine
Running, Love Is, Goal

Things are solved by walking around.

Saint Augustine
Walking

God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.

Saint Augustine
Omnipotence, Giving, Riches

When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of the miraculous. When people contemplate with open minds the germination of a single seed, they are equally overwhelmed-yet numerous babies are born every day, and no-one marvels. If only people opened their minds, they would see that the birth of a baby, in which a new life is created, is a greater miracle than restoring life.

Saint Augustine
Baby, People, Miracle

The greatest evil is physical pain.

Saint Augustine
Pain, Evil, Physical Pain
Soliloquies I.21

Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Inspiration, Draws

Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak.

Saint Augustine
Believe, Eye, Soul
Saint Augustine (2014). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.4, Open Road Media

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