Quotes by Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine

… at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for it seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should be foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man was the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon the Cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it blood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by which the Church is built up.

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…But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as ‘business’ and even though boys’ games are much the same, they are punished for them by their elders. No one pities either the boys or the men, though surely we deserve pity, for I cannot believe that a good judge would approve of the beatings I received as a boy on the ground that my games delayed my progress in studying subjects which would enable me to play a less creditable game later in life.

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…If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

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“Give us this day our daily bread,” by “this day” we mean “at this time,” when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happiness.

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“Otherwise grace is no more grace,” since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

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A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. My good points are instilled by you and are your gifts. My bad points are my faults and your judgements on them. Let them take heart from the one and regret the other. Let both praise and tears ascend in your sight from brotherly hearts, your censers. …But you Lord…Make perfect my imperfections.

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A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

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A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by Whom the world itself was made; for he is warned by the precept of the apostle and faithfully hears what has been said, ‘Beware that no one deceive you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the elements of the world’

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A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot

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A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

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Quotes by Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine

…If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

“Otherwise grace is no more grace,” since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

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