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They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they

They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.

Saint Augustine
Devil, Fool, Firsts

I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.

Saint Augustine
Old Habits, Evil, Grace
Sermons 180:10:1,

My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.

Saint Augustine
Love, Moving, Love Is

All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Disease, Demon

Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born.

Saint Augustine
Children, Order, Baptism

The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

Saint Augustine
Angel, Men, Devil

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more.

Saint Augustine
Giving, Zenith, Way

And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.

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

A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Eye, Messengers

Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.

Saint Augustine
Giving, Needs, Stewardship

The Devil invented gambling.

Saint Augustine
Gambling, Devil

Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.

Saint Augustine
Time, Ends, End Times

It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

Saint Augustine
Education, Teacher, Use

He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.

Saint Augustine
God
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.1975, Aeterna Press

No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.

Saint Augustine
Believe, Firsts

The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

Saint Augustine
Happiness, World, Want

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.

Saint Augustine
Jesus, Lying, Love You

For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.

Saint Augustine
Self, Two, Soul
Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2006). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.53, 1st World Publishing

We judge all things according to the divine truth.

Saint Augustine
Judging, Divine, All Things

In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Blood, Flow

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

Saint Augustine
Men, Society, Heresy

One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.

Saint Augustine
Too Much

God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

Saint Augustine
Hope, Support, Should

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Motivation, Hypocrite

My weight is my love.

Saint Augustine
Weight
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.10739, Aeterna Press

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