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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

Saint Augustine
Spiritual, Light, Corruption
"Works". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Volume III. In Johannis Evang. Cap. I. Tr. V. Section XV, p. 140, 1922.

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

Saint Augustine
Greatness, Healthy, Arrogance

Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'

Saint Augustine
Blessed, Heart, Men

What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.

Saint Augustine
Grace, Ask Me, Knows

Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?

Saint Augustine
Majesty, Praise, Lord
Saint Augustine (2003). “Confessions”, p.21, Penguin UK

As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. Even if some unknown landmass is there, and not just ocean, there was only one pair of original ancestors, and it is inconceivable that such distant regions should have been peopled by Adam's descendants.

Saint Augustine
Ocean, Men, Feet

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

Saint Augustine
Writing, Numbers

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

Saint Augustine
Lying, Pride, Evil

The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word

Saint Augustine
Blood, Bread, Body Of Christ

Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and have called out, and have shattered my deafness. You have blazed forth with light and have put my blindness to flight! You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you. You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace.

Saint Augustine
Light, Hunger And Thirst, Ancient

When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Inspiration, Sorrow

The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is to say, if they use freely and cheerfully what they have received, He will add to and perfect His gifts.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Giving, Perfect

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Saint Augustine
Love, Beauty, Ancient
Saint Augustine (2003). “Confessions”, Penguin UK

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 art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.

Saint Augustine
Art, Happy Life, Joy
Saint Augustine (2009). “The Confessions of St. Augustine”, p.284, The Floating Press

Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

Saint Augustine
Evil, Coping, Difficulty

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

Saint Augustine
Philosophical, Character, Angel

To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Men, Flames

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

Saint Augustine
Lust, Atheism, Capricious

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

Saint Augustine
Faith

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

Saint Augustine
Wise, Wish, Philosopher

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

Saint Augustine
Mean, Men, Suffering
Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine: The Autobiography of a Prodigal Who Became a Saint”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.

Saint Augustine
Justice, Kingdoms, Gang

It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral in her virginity, brought him forth, made visible for us, by whom, when he was invisible, she too was created. A Virgin conceiving, a Virgin bearing, a Virgin pregnant, a Virgin bringing forth, a Virgin perpetual. Why do you wonder at this, O man?

Saint Augustine
Mother, Men, Sun

I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

Saint Augustine
Fall, Mean, Self
Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.29, Oxford Paperbacks

He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

Saint Augustine
Character, Renegades, Wander

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