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If faith fails, prayer perishes.

If faith fails, prayer perishes.

Saint Augustine
Prayer, Failing, Ifs

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

Saint Augustine
Pride, Proud, Source
Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.217, Oxford Paperbacks

Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

Saint Augustine
Angel, Names, Heaven
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.468, Catholic Way Publishing

The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

Saint Augustine
Race, People, Inquisitive
Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.181, OUP Oxford

Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the whole substance is one image. But when she is assigned the role as helpmate, a function that pertains to her alone, then she is not the image of God. But as far as the man is concerned, he is by himself alone the image of God just as fully and completely as when he and the woman are joined together into one.

Saint Augustine
Taken, Men, Together

For in our hope we are saved.

Saint Augustine
Saved

Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still.

Saint Augustine
Past, Ebb And Flow, Forever
Saint Augustine (2003). “Confessions”, Penguin UK

Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?

Saint Augustine
Happy Life, Catholic, Path
Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.104

Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down to the things of earth here below. He points out that these frail and mortal objects could not be endowed with a beauty so immaculate and so exquisitely wrought, did they not issue from the Divinity which endlessly prevades with its invisible and unchanging beauty all things.

Saint Augustine
Mean, Issues, Religion

Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

Saint Augustine
Law, Evil, Common

He who labours, prays.

Saint Augustine
Praying, Labor, Labour
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 907-911, 1922.

If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.

Saint Augustine
Men, Doubt, Wicked

Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

Saint Augustine
Mother, Joy, Age

If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

Saint Augustine
Soul, May, Want

A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.

Saint Augustine
Religious, Eye, Men

It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

Saint Augustine
Firsts, Would Be, Flesh

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

Saint Augustine
Begging You, Giving, Warning
St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 51-94”, p.148

It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.

Saint Augustine
Son, Riches, Lifetime
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.231, Catholic Way Publishing

The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him, though otherwise than as they shall reign hereafter; and yet, though the tares grow in the Church along with the wheat, they do not reign with Him. For they reign with Him who do what the apostle says, 'If you are risen with Christ, mind the things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. Seek those things which are above, not the things which are on the earth'.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Hands, Heaven
"The Works of Aurelius Augustine: A New Translation".

Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.

Saint Augustine
Men, Water, Heaven
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.739, Aeterna Press

We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

Saint Augustine
Death, Good Friend, People

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

Saint Augustine
Men, Good Man, Wicked
Saint Augustine (2003). “City of God”, p.217, Penguin UK

The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14).

Saint Augustine
Christian, Doe, Flesh

I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

Saint Augustine
Catholic, Suffering, Doe

Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

Saint Augustine
Two, World, Knowledge Of God

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