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It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

Saint Augustine
Church, Salvation, Deny

The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.

Saint Augustine
Passion, Men, Mind

Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean, the course of the stars-and forget to wonder at themselves. Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

Saint Augustine
Encouragement, Stars, Ocean

I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.

Saint Augustine
Soul, Unhappy, Pieces

What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction

Saint Augustine
Eye, Holy Eucharist, Blood

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

Saint Augustine
Guilt, Tears, Stains

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Men, Hair

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

Saint Augustine
Love, War, Enmity

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

Saint Augustine
Christian, True Religion

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.

Saint Augustine
Prayer, Struggle, Fighting
"'Contra Julianum' ('Against Julian')". Book by Augustine. Book II, Chapter 8, 22,

Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.

Saint Augustine
Life, Brother, Men
"On the Mystical Body of Christ". "The Whole Christ: The Historical Development of the Doctrine of the Mystical Body in Scripture and Tradition". Book by Emile Mersch, p. 436, 1962.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Saint Augustine
Philosophical, Sins Not, Forsaken

Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

Saint Augustine
Love
"On the Mystical Body of Christ". "The Whole Christ: The Historical Development of the Doctrine of the Mystical Body in Scripture and Tradition". Book by Emile Mersch, p. 438, 1962.

When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

Saint Augustine
Pain, Real, Toil
Saint Augustine of Hippo, St Augustine (2008). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.304, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated?

Saint Augustine
Christian, Jesus, Revenge
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 520, 1895.

O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

Saint Augustine
Saint, Masters, Chaste

For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

Saint Augustine
Ifs
"'De doctrina christiana' ('On Christian Teaching')". Book by Augustinus, 1:1:1, 397.

Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.

Saint Augustine
War, May, Spirit

On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what it signifies, or about the greatness of the reality of which it is a sacrament. Your eyes are looking at bread and cup. This is the evidence before your physical sight. But your faith must be instructed concerning it- this bread being Christ 's Body and the cup containing His Blood. Though perhaps these words may be enough to initiate faith, faith must be further instructed in accordance with the Prophet's words: 'Believe that you may understand'

Saint Augustine
Believe, Eye, Night

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

Saint Augustine
Scary, Mind, Height

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

Saint Augustine
Punishment, Causes, Martyr

Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.

Saint Augustine
God, Work, Math

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

Saint Augustine
Wish, Ask Me, Knows
Saint Augustine (2014). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.150, Open Road Media

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

Saint Augustine
Book, Light, Mind

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

Saint Augustine
Fall, Heart, Suspense

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