A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words, “Who can this be? Even the wind and the waves obey him.”
Saint Augustine
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[Lat., Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.] SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE From many to make one.
[Lat., Ex pluribus unum facere.] SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE The verdict of the world is conclusive.
[Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.] SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it
passes among the impure, it is not p... SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De ... SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
[Lat., Curiosis fabricavit inferos.] SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE Now he [Nebridius] lives in Abraham's bosom.
[Lat., Nunc ille vivit in sinu Abraham.] SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE God is best known in not knowing him.
[Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.] SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it
cannot teach me anything, but if I al... SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried
along to dwell in the blood.
[Lat... SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE A child of those tears.
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