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Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

Saint Augustine
Desire, Debtors, Demand
Saint Augustine (2010). “Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 38)”, p.95, CUA Press

Charity is the root of all good works.

Saint Augustine
Roots, Charity, Good Work
Saint Augustine (1992). “Sermons 148-183 on the New Testament”, p.310, New City Press

You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Hunger And Thirst, Odor

For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.

Saint Augustine
Book, Angel, Doe
Saint Augustine (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

Saint Augustine
Land, Support, Want

Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation ... The benefits which flow from Baptism are necessarily fruits which belong to the true Church alone. Children Baptized in other communions cease to be members of the Church when, after reaching the age of reason, they make formal profession of heresy, as, for example, by receiving communion in a non-Catholic Church.

Saint Augustine
Children, Men, Baptized In

The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely. The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is His Church; the bridegroom and the bride, two in one flesh. All who dissent from the Scriptures concerning Christ, although they may be found in all places in which the Church is found, are not in the Church; and again all those who agree with the Scriptures concerning the Head, and do not communicate in the unity of the Church, are not in the Church.

Saint Augustine
Son, Two, Unity
"Publications of the Catholic Truth Society", London, Volume 30, (p. 41), 1896.

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

Saint Augustine
Believe, Heaven, Soul
"Column: Nothing new in pope's speech", beforeitsnews.com. July 8, 2015.

A marriage without children is the world without the sun.

Saint Augustine
Children, World, Sun

And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God; for He is the light, the melody, the fragrance, the food, the embracement of my inner self - there where is a brillance that space cannot contain, a sound that time cannot carry away, a perfume that no breeze disperses, a taste undimisnished by eating, a clinging together that no saiety will sunder. This is what I love when I love my God.

Saint Augustine
Space, Light, Self

Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.

Saint Augustine
Sacrifice, Holy Eucharist, Way

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

Saint Augustine
Desire, Disposition, Temperance

Near our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night, when I [at the age of sixteen] had played until dark on the sandlot with some other juvenile delinquents, we went to shake that tree and carry off its fruit. From it we carried off huge loads, not to feast on, but to throw to the pigs, although we did eat a few ourselves. We did it just because it was forbidden.

Saint Augustine
Dark, Night, Pigs

Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord.

Saint Augustine
Baptism, Church, Wickedness

Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

Saint Augustine
Nature, Stars, Ocean

Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, "It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you.

Saint Augustine
Beautiful, Voice, Doe

One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever.

Saint Augustine
Angel, Baptism, Faithful
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.4249, Aeterna Press

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

Saint Augustine
Love Is, Fierce, Shameless
Saint Augustine (2010). “Treatises on Various Subjects (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 16)”, p.172, CUA Press

So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.

Saint Augustine
Children, Sake, Partners
St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 273-305”, p.55

He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.

Saint Augustine
Prayer, Littles
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 464, 1895.

God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

Saint Augustine
Adversity, Men, Understanding

Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.

Saint Augustine
Talking, Want, What You Want

Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Stars, Distance

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Saint Augustine
Time, Wish, Ask Me
Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (2011). “Confessions”, p.244, Hendrickson Publishers

If you understood him, it would not be God.

Saint Augustine
Christian Inspirational, Understanding, Understood

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