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The verdict of the world is conclusive.

The verdict of the world is conclusive.

Saint Augustine
World, Verdict
"Contra epistulam Parmeniani" by Augustine of Hippo, III, 24,

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

Saint Augustine
Passion, Opportunity, Men

The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.

Saint Augustine
Law, People, Church

Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.

Saint Augustine
Men, Sight, Sins Not
Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2006). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.10, 1st World Publishing

Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.

Saint Augustine
Believe, Miracle, Doe

Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all. Thus a man supported by faith, hope, and charity, with an unshaken hold upon them does not need the scriptures. . . And many live by these three things in solitude without books.

Saint Augustine
Book, Men, Thinking
"People of the book" by Richard Harries, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2007.

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

Saint Augustine
Dance, Dancing, Gestures

Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

Saint Augustine
Honored, Virginity

Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

Saint Augustine
Science, World, Made
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.466, Catholic Way Publishing

What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

Saint Augustine
What Matters, Doe, Rejoice

What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the Lord? These men truly have to say: "In Thy Name we have eaten and drunk," and they will have to hear: "I do not know you!" (Luke 13:26-27). They eat and drink His Body and Blood in the Sacrament and do not recognize in the Gospel His members spread over the whole world, and for this reason they are not numbered among them at the Judgment.

Saint Augustine
Men, Blood, Names

Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.

Saint Augustine
Inspiration, Men, Arrogance

For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.

Saint Augustine
Philosophical, Live Well, Wells
"Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection".

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

Saint Augustine
Life, Loving Life, Might
"Confessions" by Saint Augustine, Book III, (1), (c. 397).

Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.

Saint Augustine
Christian, League, Soul

Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?

Saint Augustine
Errors, Light, Wind

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

Saint Augustine
Justice, Our Love

If you comprehend, it is not God.

Saint Augustine
God, Ifs
Sermon 52, 16,

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

Saint Augustine
Men, Littles, Bigs

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

Saint Augustine
Giving, Chastity, Give Me
'Confessions' (397-8) bk. 8, ch. 7

The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

Saint Augustine
Angel, Sacrifice, Helping

Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.

Saint Augustine
Son, Blood, Dear
"Sermons" by Augustine of Hippo, 216:3:1,

When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when you infest the whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.

Saint Augustine
Kings, Sea, Cynical
Augustine, R. W. Dyson (1998). “Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans”, p.148, Cambridge University Press

It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith of those presenting him or ministering to him,' but, 'Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit.' The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam.

Saint Augustine
Men, Water, Parent

And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

Saint Augustine
Philosophical, Eye, Light
Saint Augustine (2009). “The Confessions of St. Augustine”, p.174, The Floating Press

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