Saint Augustine Quotes, Church Quotes, Salvation Quotes

It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.

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My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

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The greatest evil is physical pain.

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For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God.

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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

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Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.

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In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

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For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.

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While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

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The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

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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.

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

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The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.

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Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

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One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever.

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Love is ever new because it never groweth old.

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