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• What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Holy Eucharist, Blood

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• If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.

  Saint Augustine

  Mean, Fate, Men

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• Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Giving, Worship

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• Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love.

  Saint Augustine

  Depth, Looks, Littles

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• In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

  Saint Augustine

  Attitude, Unity, Liberty

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• When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied:
  The same as you do when you infest the whole world;
  but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber,
  and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.

  Saint Augustine

  Kings, Sea, Cynical

  Augustine, R. W. Dyson (1998). “Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans”, p.148, Cambridge University Press

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• What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Ships, Emperor

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.161, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Divine Scripture is wont to frame, as it were, allurements for children from the things which are found in the creature; whereby, according to their measure, and as it were by steps, the affections of the weak may be moved to seek those things that are above, and to leave those things that are below. But the same Scripture rarely employs those things which are spoken properly of God, and are not found in any creature; as, for instance, that which was said to Moses, I am that I am; and, I Am has sent me to you."

  Saint Augustine

  Children, May, Scripture

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

  Saint Augustine

  Nature, Stars, Ocean

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• His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

  Saint Augustine

  Past, Three, Variation

  Saint Augustine (2003). “City of God”, p.589, Penguin UK

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• What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Practice, Soul

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• Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.

  Saint Augustine

  Arrogance, Together, May

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• Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

  Saint Augustine

  Giving, Poor, Command

  "Sermon 61:13, On Almsgiving". "The Fathers Of The Church A New Translation Saint Augustine Commentary...". Book by Ludwig Schopp, Volume 11/3, p. 286, 1951.

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• Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Gun, Men

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• We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Writing, Understanding

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• The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

  Saint Augustine

  Taken, Perfect, Soul

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• And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Eye, Light

  Saint Augustine (2009). “The Confessions of St. Augustine”, p.174, The Floating Press

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• When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

  Saint Augustine

  Numbers, Flames, People

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

  Saint Augustine

  War, Order, Provoking

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• 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, Men, Mind

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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.

  Saint Augustine

  Beauty, Beautiful, Order

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• Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all. Thus a man supported by faith, hope, and charity, with an unshaken hold upon them does not need the scriptures. . . And many live by these three things in solitude without books.

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Men, Thinking

  "People of the book" by Richard Harries, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2007.

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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'

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Philosophy, Men

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.344, Catholic Way Publishing

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• 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.

  Saint Augustine

  Ifs

  "'De doctrina christiana' ('On Christian Teaching')". Book by Augustinus, 1:1:1, 397.

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• Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

  Saint Augustine

  Wise, Love Is, Justice

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