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If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the

If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Believe, Book
John Hammond Taylor, Saint Augustine (1983). “Genesi Ad Litteram”, p.43, Paulist Press

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

Saint Augustine
Mother, Father, Violence
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 351, 1895.

Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?

Saint Augustine
Wisdom, Heart, Prey

There is no possible source of evil except good.

Saint Augustine
Philosophical, Evil, Religion

So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you.

Saint Augustine
Without You, Justify
"Sermons (148-183).: On the New Testament. III,5". Book by Saint Augustine, 1992.

Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.

Saint Augustine
Decision, Scary, Wish

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

Saint Augustine
Substance, Wickedness, Matter

It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.

Saint Augustine
Men, Evil, Good Man
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.912, Catholic Way Publishing

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

Saint Augustine
Angel, Men, Order
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.478, Catholic Way Publishing

God without us will not as we without God cannot.

Saint Augustine
Without God

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Saint Augustine
Men, Sin, Satan

Every infinity... is made finite to God.

Saint Augustine
God, Faith, Hope

The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

Saint Augustine
Eggs, Forgiving, Debtors
St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 51-94”, p.115

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

Saint Augustine
Ninety, Turns, Percent

Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not.

Saint Augustine
Father, Order, Rocks
"Our Church, Her Children and Institutions", Volume 1, by Henry Coyle, Angel Guardian Press, Boston, (p. 98), 1908.

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it.

Saint Augustine
Moving, Hands, Order
Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.148, OUP Oxford

Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it is right they should ... With you, where there is none of these things to attract or keep me... No one shall move me from the faith which binds my mind with ties so many and so strong to the Christian religion... For my part, I should not believe the gospel except as moved by the authority of the Catholic Church.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Strong, Moving

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

Saint Augustine
Law, Discipline, Curiosity
Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.17, Oxford Paperbacks

Love God, then do what you will.

Saint Augustine
God Love

Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.

Saint Augustine
Art, Selfish, Book
Saint Augustine (2010). “The Confessions”, p.198, New City Press

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Saint Augustine
Pain, Animal, Class

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine
Argument, Ends

I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

Saint Augustine
Giving, Matter, Scripture
Saint Augustine, F. J. Sheed (2007). “Confessions (Second Edition)”, p.110, Hackett Publishing

Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though there be no numbering of infinite numbers, is yet not incomprehensible by Him Whose understanding is infinite. And thus, if everything which is comprehended is defined or made finite by the comprehension of him who knows it, then all infinity is in some ineffable way made finite to God, for it is comprehensible by His knowledge.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Numbers, Understanding

The diversity of language alienates man from man

Saint Augustine
Men, Diversity, Language

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