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  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Father Quotes , Order Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Suicide Quotes , Suicidal Quotes
  • Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Heart Quotes , Love Is Quotes
  • That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Love Quotes , Forgiveness Quotes