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Augustine of Hippo
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“The inclination to seek the truth is safer than the presumption which regards unknown things as known.”
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Recorded in: (Cambridge: 2002), Book 9, Chapter 1, p. 24
“When I, who conduct this inquiry, love something, then three things are found: I, what I love, and the love itself. … There are, therefore three things: the lover, the beloved and the love.”
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Recorded in: (Cambridge: 2002), Book 9, Chapter 2, Section 2, p. 26
“The mind itself, its love [of itself] and its knowledge [of itself] are a kind of trinity.”
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Recorded in: (Cambridge: 2002), Book 9, Chapter 4, Section 4, p. 27
“Yes, you see the Trinity if you see charity.”
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“Salus extra ecclesiam non est or Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus”
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Recorded in: On Baptism, Against the Donatists, book IV, ch. 17. Citing the famous teaching of St. Cyprian. In letter 185:50 (on the Donatist controversy), Augustine speaks of those who have knowingly separated from the unity of the…
“Who dismisses his adulterous wife and marries another woman, whereas his first wife still lives, remains perpetually in the state of adultery. Such a man does not any efficacious penance while he refuses to abandon the new wife. If he is a catechumen, he cannot be admitted to baptism, because his will remains rooted in the evil. If he is a (baptized) penitent, he cannot receive the (ecclesiastical) reconciliation as long as he does not break with his bad attitude.”
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Recorded in: De adulterinis coniugiis, 2, 16, in Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Reaction to Synod Door to communion for divorced & remarried officially kicked open, November 2nd, 2015
“Quapropter bono christiano, sive mathematici, sive quilibet impie divinantium, maxime dicentes vera, cavendi sunt, ne consortio daemoniorum animam deceptam, pacto quodam societatis irretiant.”
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Recorded in: Translation published in Mathematics in Western Culture (1953)
“In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.”
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“Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.”
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“We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.”
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“So the Church imitates the Lord’s mother — not in the bodily sense, which it could not do — but in mind it is both mother and virgin. In no way, then, did Christ deprive his mother of her virginity by being”
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“But it isn’t just a matter of faith, but of faith and works. Each is necessary. For the demons also believe — you heard the apostle — and tremble (Jas 2:19); but their believing doesn’t do them any good. Faith alone is not enough, unless works too are joined to it: Faith working through love (Gal 5:6), says the apostle.”
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“Non enim amat Deus damnare sed salvare, et ideo patiens est in malos, ut de malis faciat bonos.”
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“Magnus esse vis, a minimo incipe. Cogitas magnam fabricam construere celsitudinis, de fundamento prius cogita humilitatis. Et quantam quisque vult et disponit superimponere molem aedificii, quanto erit maius aedificium, tanto altius fodit fundamentum.”
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“Quid est ira? Libido vindictae. Quid est odium? Ira inveterata.”
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“Ira festuca est, odium trabes est.”
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“Date ergo pauperibus: rogo, moneo, praecipio, iubeo.”
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Recorded in: Sermon 61:13, On Almsgiving, The Fathers Of The Church: A New Translation. Saint Augustine Commentary On The Lord’s Sermon On The Mount With Seventeen Related Sermons, (1951), Ludwig Schopp, Roy Joseph Deferrari, vol. 1…
“The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say – as we forgive our debtors. When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.”
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“Columba amat et quando caedit. Lupus odit et quando blanditur.”
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“Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.”
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“Factus est Deus homo ut homo fieret Deus.”
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“Roma locuta est; causa finita est.”
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Also quoted by: Aurelius Augustinus (la)
“He who created you without you will not justify you without you.”
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“He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.”
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“Caritas radix est omnium operum bonorum.”
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“I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I’m telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God, and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.”
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“When the apostle James was talking about faith and works against those who thought their faith was enough, and didn’t want to have good works, he said, You believe God is one; you do well; the demons also believe, and tremble.” (Jas 2:19)”
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“So the Church too, like Mary, enjoys perpetual virginity and uncorrupted fecundity.”
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“Don’t hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.”
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“Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.”
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“You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.”
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“Ideo, carissimi, veneramini martyres, laudate, amate, praedicate, honorate: Deum martyrum colite.”
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“Non ergo accedas, si potes, nisi liberorum procreandorum causa.”
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Recorded in: 278:9; translation from: The works of Saint Augustine, John E. Rotelle, New City Press, 1994, p. 55.
“Cantare amantis est.”
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“Temporibus enim nostris venit imperator in urbem Romam: ibi est templum imperatoris, ibi est sepulcrum piscatoris. Itaque ille ad deprecandam a Domino salutem imperator pius atque christianus non perrexit ad templum imperatoris superbum, sed ad sepulcrum piscatoris, ubi humilis ipsum piscatorem imitaretur, ut tunc respectus aliquid impetraret a Domino, quod superbiens imperator mereri non posset.”
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Recorded in: 341:4; English from: Newly Discovered Sermons, 1997, Edmund Hill, tr., John E. Rotelle, ed., New City Press, New York, p. p. 286.
“Mors est poena peccati.”
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“Quid de se praesumit mortuus? Mori potuit de suo, reviviscere de suo non potest. Peccare per nos ipsos et potuimus et possumus nec tamen per nos resurgere aliquando poterimus. Spes nostra non sit, nisi in Deo 14. Ad illum gemamus, in illo praesumamus; quod ad nos pertinet, voluntate conemur, ut oratione mereamur.”
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Recorded in: 348A:4 Against Pelagius; English translation from: Newly Discovered Sermons, 1997, Edmund Hill, John E. Rotelle, New City Press, New York, , 9781565481039 pp. 311-312. Editor’s comment: “This sounds like a slightly Pela…
“For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.”
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“We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.”
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“Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special regard to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you.”
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“Securus iudicat orbis terrarum.”
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“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.”
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Recorded in: Against Julian, Book II, ch. 8, 22. In The Fathers of the Church, Matthew A. Schumacher, tr., 1957, pp. 83-84.
“I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”
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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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“Christ is not valued at all unless He be valued above all.”
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“It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.”
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“Give, O Lord, what Thou commandest, and then command what Thou wilt.”
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“Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee.”
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“It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.”
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“The true servants of God are not solicitous that He should order them to do what they desire to do, but that they may desire to do what He orders them to do.”
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