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Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Firsts, Should

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

Saint Augustine
Assessment, Aging, Knows

The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

Saint Augustine
Law, Giving, Limited Time

Cantare amantis est ... Singing belongs to one who loves." (s. 336, 1 – PL 38, 1472).

Saint Augustine
Singing

Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!

Saint Augustine
Evil, Lazy, Taught

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

Saint Augustine
Angel, Ministry, Weight

Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest... And of what consequence is it what kind of death puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not forced to go through the same ordeal a second time? They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

Saint Augustine
Life, Needs, Kind
"The City of God".

Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

Saint Augustine
Marriage, Ravens, Kind

Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.

Saint Augustine
Men, Function, God Image

It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

Saint Augustine
Intellectual, Wish, Misery

For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.

Saint Augustine
Suicide, Suicidal, Hands
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9332, Aeterna Press

Only He who made man makes man happy.

Saint Augustine
Men, Catholic, Made

Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Delight, Praise
"Confessions". Book by Saint Augustine (Book 1), www.huffingtonpost.com. 397-400 AD.

Custom is second nature.

Saint Augustine
Customs
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 154-155, 1922.

God suffers not the pain of repentance, nor is He deceived in any matter, so that He would wish to correct that wherein He has erred. But as when a man repents of anything, he wishes to change what he has done; thus where you hear that God repents, look for an actual change. God does it differently from you, although He calls it by the name of repentance; for thou dost it, because you had erred; while He does it, because He avenges, or frees.

Saint Augustine
Pain, Men, Names
Source: www.patheos.com

The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but from the nature of the lime, which will not endure it.

Saint Augustine
Law, Evil, Water

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

Saint Augustine
Punishment, Justice, Unjust

I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.

Saint Augustine
Ideas, Explaining, Clear

Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds that the Spirit of the Lord, who wrought miracles through him, had bidden him to do so. But, apart from such men excepted by the command of a just law in general or of God, the very Source of justice, in a special case, any one who kills a human being, himself or another, is guilty of murder.

Saint Augustine
Men, Law, Justice
Saint Augustine (2008). “The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)”, p.54, CUA Press

It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.

Saint Augustine
Cutting, Long, Church

This world's a bubble.

Saint Augustine
World, This World, Bubbles

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

Saint Augustine
Math, Ignorant, Doe

The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.

Saint Augustine
Men, Neighbor, Bounds

Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.

Saint Augustine
Feet, Giving, Tree
Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.117

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

Saint Augustine
Book, Usual, Study

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