“The dove loves even when it attacks; the wolf hates even when it flatters.”
Columba amat et quando caedit. Lupus odit et quando blanditur.
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“The dove loves even when it attacks; the wolf hates even when it flatters.”
Columba amat et quando caedit. Lupus odit et quando blanditur.
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“We are He, since we are His body and since He was made man in order to be our Head.”
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, p.432
As quoted by John Knox The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate http://www.swrb.com/newslett/actualNLs/firblast.htm (1558) <br class="br">Disputed
Aurelius Augustinus book Confessions
I found this nowhere there.
VII, 9
Confessions (c. 397)
I, xviii, 37. Modern translation by J.H. Taylor
De Genesi ad Litteram
Aurelius Augustinus On the Trinity
(Cambridge: 2002), Book 9, Chapter 1, p. 24
On the Trinity (417)
Aurelius Augustinus book The City of God
XV, 22
The City of God (early 400s)
“In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity (love).”
In necessariis unitas, In dubiis libertas, In omnibus autem caritas.
The first known occurence of such an expression is as "Omnesque mutuam amplecteremur unitatem in necessariis, in non necessariis libertatem, in omnibus caritatem" in De Republica Ecclesiastica by Marco Antonio de Dominis, Pars I. London (1617), lib. 4 cap. 8 p. 676 (penultimate sentence) books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=QcVFAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA676, cf. liberlocorumcommunium http://liberlocorumcommunium.blogspot.com/2010/03/in-necessariis-unitas-in-non.html. <br class="br">Misattributed
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 616
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 351
Disputed
“The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.”
Aurelius Augustinus book Confessions
I, 7
Confessions (c. 397)
“Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.”
Quantum in te crescit amor, tantum crescit pulchritudo; quia ipsa caritas est animae pulchritudo.
Ninth Homily, Paragraph 9, as translated by Boniface Ramsey (2008) Augustinian Heritage Institute
Variant translation:
Inasmuch as love grows in you, in so much beauty grows; for love is itself the beauty of the soul.
as translated by H. Browne and J. H. Meyers, The Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers (1995)
Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John (414)
“We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.”
Aurelius Augustinus De doctrina christiana
1:14 http://books.google.com/books?id=9dJGZkTAqJsC&q=&quot;we+were+ensnared+by+the+wisdom+of+the+serpent+we+are+set+free+by+the+foolishness+of+god&quot;&pg=PA10#v=onepage <br class="br">Latin: Serpentis sapientia decepti sumus, Dei stultitia liberamur. <br class="br">De doctrina christiana
Aurelius Augustinus book Confessions
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.
Source: Confessions (c. 397), X
“I have become a question to myself.”
Mihi quaestio factus sum.
Aurelius Augustinus book Confessions
X, 33
Confessions (c. 397)
“And these were the dishes wherein to me, hunger-starven for thee, they served up the sun and the moon.”
Et illa erant fercula, in quibus mihi esurienti te inferebatur sol et luna.
Aurelius Augustinus book Confessions
III, 6
Confessions (c. 397)
Sometimes attributed to Augustine, but is from Phyllis McGinley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_McGinley, The Province of the Heart, "The Honor of Being a Woman" (1959). <br class="br">Misattributed
“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”
Aurelius Augustinus book Enchiridion of Augustine
Enchiridion (c. 420 ), Ch. 27
I, xxi, 41. Modern translation by J.H. Taylor
De Genesi ad Litteram
“Rome has spoken; the case is concluded.”
Roma locuta est; causa finita est.
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