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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.

  Saint Augustine

  Mean, Names, Giving

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• Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

  Saint Augustine

  Lust, Atheism, Capricious

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• The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

  Saint Augustine

  Spiritual, Light, Corruption

  "Works". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Volume III. In Johannis Evang. Cap. I. Tr. V. Section XV, p. 140, 1922.

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• What can be hoped for which is not believed?

  Saint Augustine

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• Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and have called out, and have shattered my deafness. You have blazed forth with light and have put my blindness to flight! You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you. You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace.

  Saint Augustine

  Light, Hunger And Thirst, Ancient

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• This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

  Saint Augustine

  Risk, Doe, Awful

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• When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

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  Men, Scary, Devil

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.584, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'

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  Blessed, Heart, Men

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• That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.

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  Fire, Faithful, May

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• I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

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  Writing, Numbers

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• Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

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  Humility, Thinking, Wish

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

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  Fighting, Enemy

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• Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

  Saint Augustine

  Evil, Coping, Difficulty

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• I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

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  Mind

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, St Augustine, Saint Augustine (2001). “Saint Augustine's Confessions”, p.90, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?

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  Ignorant, Remember, Forget

  SAINT AUGUSTINE (1952). “THE CONFESSIONS THE CITY OF GOD ON CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE”

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• God is best known in not knowing him.

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  Knowing, Not Knowing, Known

  "'On Order' ('De Ordine')". Book by Saint Augustine, II, 16,

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• There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.

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  Art, Happy Life, Joy

  Saint Augustine (2009). “The Confessions of St. Augustine”, p.284, The Floating Press

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• Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

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  Accomplishment, Desire, Blessedness

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• The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely. The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is His Church; the bridegroom and the bride, two in one flesh. All who dissent from the Scriptures concerning Christ, although they may be found in all places in which the Church is found, are not in the Church; and again all those who agree with the Scriptures concerning the Head, and do not communicate in the unity of the Church, are not in the Church.

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  Son, Two, Unity

  "Publications of the Catholic Truth Society", London, Volume 30, (p. 41), 1896.

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• Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

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  Christian, May, Lord

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• We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

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  Philosophical, Character, Angel

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• Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

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  Philosophy, Judging, Abuse

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• You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

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  Needs, Lord, Goodness

  Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.125, OUP Oxford

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

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  Mean, Men, Stills

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• Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation ... The benefits which flow from Baptism are necessarily fruits which belong to the true Church alone. Children Baptized in other communions cease to be members of the Church when, after reaching the age of reason, they make formal profession of heresy, as, for example, by receiving communion in a non-Catholic Church.

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  Children, Men, Baptized In

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