Saint Augustine Quotes

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

It is possible to call God 'Lord,' to feel emotionally connected to faith, to do the altruistic things and still not want God.

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.

To you a pious young girl who goes to mass and communion, seems pretty silly and childish; you take us for innocents... Well, let me tell you, sometimes we know more about evil than people who have only learned to offend God.

The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist.

I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there.

The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life

Look to it, my dear friends, that none of you be found Christless at your appearance before him. Those that continue Christless now, will be left speechless then. God forbid that you that have heard so much of Christ, and you that have professed so much of Christ, should at last fall into a worse condition than those that never heard the name of Christ.

The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.

If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.

Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced... Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist

I am quite sure that if we could but once approach the Most Holy Sacrament with great faith and love, it would suffice to make us rich. How much more so if we approach it often!

'Lord you know that I love you...Lord, you know that I love you' (Jn 21:15-17). The Eucharist is, in a certain way, the culminating point of this answer. I wish to repeat it together with the whole Church to Him, who manifested His love by means of the Sacrament of His Body and Blood, remaining with us 'to the close of the age'

The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.

If you think one thing is sacred but you cannot stand the other, if you love the Creator but hate the creation, that is vulgarity.

Be careful of those who kill in Jesus' name; he don't believe in killing at all.

Dear young people, the happiness you are seeking, the happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist. Only he gives the fullness of life to humanity! With Mary, say your own "yes" to God, for he wishes to give himself to you.

If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.

A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad.

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

The people who crucified Jesus were not able to see his godliness at all; they could only see the mischief in him.

Grace is not a theology. It is not a subject matter. It is not a doctrine. It is a person, and his name is Jesus. That's the reason the Lord wants you to receive the abundance of grace, for to have the abundance of grace is to have the abundance of Jesus.