Saint Augustine Quotes, Mother Quotes, Baptism Quotes

The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous, nor is it to be believed that its tradition is anything except apostolic.

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Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

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And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

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Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

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God without us will not as we without God cannot.

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Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean, the course of the stars-and forget to wonder at themselves. Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

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The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

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

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The greatest evil is physical pain.

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Love God, and do what you like.

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Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

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As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

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Poetry is devil's wine.

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God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.

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Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?

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Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

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Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

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For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets.

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A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.

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