If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. Saint Augustine More Quotes by Saint Augustine More Quotes From Saint Augustine The law detects, grace alone conquers sin. Saint Augustine sin grace law Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false. Saint Augustine lips taken truth By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual. Saint Augustine spiritual may mean Understanding is the reward of faith. Saint Augustine rewards understanding Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state. Saint Augustine height scary mind Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: 'Forgive us our debts,' because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness. Saint Augustine fighting struggle prayer Sin is Energy in the wrong channel. Saint Augustine sin energy Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity. Saint Augustine vanity imagination thinking Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God. Saint Augustine god-love lust evil ... 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. Saint Augustine taken christian sleep You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love. Saint Augustine our-love justice Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society. Saint Augustine capricious atheism lust Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when I was not with Thee. Thou didst call, and cry, and burst my deafness. Thou didst gleam, and glow, and dispell my blindness. Thou didst touch me, and I burned for Thy peace. For Thyself Thou hast made us, and restless our hearts until in Thee they find their ease. Late have I loved Thee, Thou Beauty ever old and ever new. Thou hast burst my bonds asunder; unto Thee will I offer up an offering of praise. Saint Augustine heart love peace What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker men are, the more they are troubled by such matters. Their weakness stems from a desire to appear learned, not with a knowledge of things, by which we are edified, but with a knowledge of signs, by which it is difficult not to be puffed up in some way; even a knowledge of things often makes people boastful, unless their necks are held down by the Lord's yoke. Saint Augustine practice men people If you understand, it is not God. Saint Augustine ifs In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn. Saint Augustine humility cities christian The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men. Saint Augustine passion mind men He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven. Saint Augustine mother giving heaven Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . . Saint Augustine ancient love-you too-late It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error. Saint Augustine devilish errors humans
