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It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.

It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.

Saint Augustine
Opposites, Race, Earth

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

Saint Augustine
Life, Human Nature, Immense

Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

Saint Augustine
Way, Scripture, Doe

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

Saint Augustine
Horse, Philosophical, Grace
"De Libero Arbitrio" by Saint Augustine, (388 - 395).

If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.

Saint Augustine
Love, Soul, Body
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.10514, Aeterna Press

A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.

Saint Augustine
Belief, Willing, Persons

This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.

Saint Augustine
Beautiful, Morning, Order

It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.

Saint Augustine
Animal, Convenience, Discomfort
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.508, Catholic Way Publishing

The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.

Saint Augustine
Religious, Father, Son

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

Saint Augustine
Soul, Overcoming, Misery
Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.58, Oxford Paperbacks

In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep (Jn 21:15-19), down to the present episcopate.

Saint Augustine
Sheep, Miracle, Catholic
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.1259, Aeterna Press

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

Saint Augustine
Catholic, Purity And Love, Our Actions

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

Saint Augustine
Mind
Saint Augustine of Hippo, St Augustine, Saint Augustine (2001). “Saint Augustine's Confessions”, p.90, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

Saint Augustine
Men, Glory, Lord
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.134, Aeterna Press

AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

Saint Augustine
Father, Son, Kissing

Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

Saint Augustine
Believe, Soul, May

You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.

Saint Augustine
Sleep, House, Greed

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

Saint Augustine
Poverty, Consumerism, Overconsumption

Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.

Saint Augustine
Flesh, Thee
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so that they would wonder and be astonished at seeing not great but unusual things, who are unmoved by things daily seen. For the government of the world is a greater miracle than feeding five thousand men from five loaves; yet at the former no one wonders, the latter astonishes all men: not as a greater wonder, but as a rarer.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Men, Unusual Things

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

Saint Augustine
Desire, Saint, May

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

Saint Augustine
Accomplishment, Desire, Blessedness

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

Saint Augustine
Baptized In, Baptism, Fonts

What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker men are, the more they are troubled by such matters. Their weakness stems from a desire to appear learned, not with a knowledge of things, by which we are edified, but with a knowledge of signs, by which it is difficult not to be puffed up in some way; even a knowledge of things often makes people boastful, unless their necks are held down by the Lord's yoke.

Saint Augustine
Men, Practice, People
"On Christian Doctrine". Book by Saint Augustine, 426 AD.

Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

Saint Augustine
Doubt, Sin, Rebirth
"Sermons to the People". Book by Augustine of Hippo (Sermon 229E:2),

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