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Give what You command and command what You will.

Give what You command and command what You will.

Saint Augustine
Giving, Command
'Confessions' (397-8) bk. 10, ch. 29

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

Saint Augustine
Grace, Liberty, Virtue

Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

Saint Augustine
Law, Unjust Laws, Unjust

Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."

Saint Augustine
Father, Believe, Men

What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

Saint Augustine
Church, Matter, Authority

There is no salvation outside the church.

Saint Augustine
Scary, Church, Salvation
'De Baptismo contra Donatistas' bk. 4, 100, 17, 24.

I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.

Saint Augustine
Book, Writing, Said
"The Confessions; The City of God; On Christian Doctrine".

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

Saint Augustine
Prayer, Desire, Longing

Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)

Saint Augustine

We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.

Saint Augustine
Existence, Knows

The world's verdict is conclusive.

Saint Augustine
World, Verdict

Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth.

Saint Augustine
Doubt, Uncertain, Existence

What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond.

Saint Augustine
Children, Baptism, Church

By and by never comes.

Saint Augustine
Time, Memories

Poetry is devil's wine.

Saint Augustine
Art, Philosophy, Wine

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

Saint Augustine
Unity, Church, Serious

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

Saint Augustine
Wisdom, Taken, Justice
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.161, Catholic Way Publishing

The playthings of our elders are called business.

Saint Augustine
Elders

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

Saint Augustine
Children, Soul, Littles
"Confessions" by Saint Augustine, Book I, (7), (c. 397).

They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.

Saint Augustine
Joy, Darkness, Suffering

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

Saint Augustine
Lying, Order, Modesty

Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.

Saint Augustine
Son, Catholic, Baptism

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Saint Augustine
Children, Ambition, Work Out

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

Saint Augustine
Jesus, Together, Littles

You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

Saint Augustine
Wings, People, Research
Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.199

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