When the Head and members are despised, then the whole Christ is despised, for the whole Christ, Head and body, is that just man against whom deceitful lips speak iniquity (Ps. 30: 19). (p. 425).
Saint Augustine
Though there are very many nations all over the earth,.. There are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities,.. One consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God.. To the City of Man belong the enemies of God,.. So inflamed with hatred against the City of God.
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Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
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The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell
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God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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We are He, since we are His body and since He was made man in order to be our Head. (p. 432).
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In this one man, the whole Church has been assumed by the Word. (p. 434).
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