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Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

Saint Augustine
Children, Giving, Doe

That one woman is both mother and virgin, not in spirit only but even in body. In spirit she is mother, not of our head, who is our Savior himself-of whom all, even she herself, are rightly called children of the bridegroom-but plainly she is the mother of us who are his members, because by love she has cooperated so that the faithful, who are the members of that head, might be born in the Church. In body, indeed, she is the Mother of that very head.

Saint Augustine
Mother, Religious, Children

I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

Saint Augustine
Children, Light, Self
Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.151

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

Saint Augustine
Death, Suicide, Children

Divine Scripture is wont to frame, as it were, allurements for children from the things which are found in the creature; whereby, according to their measure, and as it were by steps, the affections of the weak may be moved to seek those things that are above, and to leave those things that are below. But the same Scripture rarely employs those things which are spoken properly of God, and are not found in any creature; as, for instance, that which was said to Moses, I am that I am; and, I Am has sent me to you."

Saint Augustine
Children, May, Scripture
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Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation ... The benefits which flow from Baptism are necessarily fruits which belong to the true Church alone. Children Baptized in other communions cease to be members of the Church when, after reaching the age of reason, they make formal profession of heresy, as, for example, by receiving communion in a non-Catholic Church.

Saint Augustine
Children, Men, Baptized In

A marriage without children is the world without the sun.

Saint Augustine
Children, World, Sun

So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.

Saint Augustine
Children, Sake, Partners
St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 273-305”, p.55

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

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

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).

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

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