Agustín de Hipona: Frases en inglés (página 9)
Agustín de Hipona era ideólogo cristiano de los siglos IV y V. Frases en inglés.“The mind itself, its love [of itself] and its knowledge [of itself] are a kind of trinity.”
(Cambridge: 2002), Book 9, Chapter 4, Section 4, p. 27
On the Trinity (417)
“In this one man, the whole Church has been assumed by the Word.”
Fuente: On the Mystical Body of Christ, p.434
“There is no salvation outside the church.”
Salus extra ecclesiam non est or Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus
On Baptism, Against the Donatists, book IV, ch. 17. Citing the famous teaching http://books.google.com/books?id=8HkXAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA458&dq=augustine+%22is+not+without+the+Church%22&hl=en&ei=7I3yTbj3N5StgQeXjenNCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22is%20not%20without%20the%20Church%22&f=false of St. Cyprian. In letter 185:50 (on the Donatist controversy), Augustine speaks of those who have knowingly separated from the unity of the Church: "Furthermore, the Catholic Church alone is the body of Christ, of which He is the Head and Saviour of His body. Outside this body the Holy Spirit giveth life to no one, seeing that, as the apostle says himself, 'The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us;' but he is not a partaker of the divine love who is the enemy of unity. Therefore they have not the Holy Ghost who are outside the Church; for it is written of them, 'They separate themselves, being sensual, having not the Spirit.'" http://books.google.com/books?id=USoMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA519&dq=%22catholic+church+alone+is+the+body+of+christ%22&hl=en&ei=4KbyTcqgG87PgAeO6ujjCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFMQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=%22catholic%20church%20alone%20is%20the%20body%20of%20christ%22&f=false. Augustine does, however, allow certain exceptions, as for example, in cases of invincible ignorance. Eugène Portalié, S.J. writes: "God’s immediate influence on souls, however, is not hindered by this ordinarily indispensable role of the Church. That is an accusation of Protestants which Augustine had foreseen. (I) In the Church, God acts ceaselessly in souls through His graces as the interior teacher and inspirer of all good. (2) Outside of the Church, God’s hands are not tied: He can work marvels of grace without human intervention in souls who do not yet know the Church, as the case of the centurion Cornelius witnesses, who had received the Holy Spirit before being baptized. God acts thus to show more clearly that it is always He and not the minister who sanctifies: “Why does it happen now this way, now that way, unless to prevent us from attributing anything to our human pride but to divine grace and power?” The conclusion is that God sometimes sanctifies without the Church and the sacraments, but never one who scorns the sacraments: “Therefore we conclude that an invisible sanctification has been offered to some and used to advantage without visible sacraments.... Not on that account, however, is the visible sacrament to be scorned, for one who scorns it can in no way be sanctified invisibly.” God, History, and Dialectic: The Theological Foundations of the Two Europes (1997) by Joseph P. Farrell http://books.google.com/books?id=ULAiVpCMGrAC&pg=RA1-PT349&lpg=RA1-PT349&dq=%22invisible+sanctification+has+been+offered+to+some%22&source=bl&ots=eiCbBwZI1I&sig=mp4zavhfLwzEA_kEB97m_g1maDM&hl=en&ei=Y5nyTYWbBo7VgAegpcjTCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CFsQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22invisible%20sanctification%20has%20been%20offered%20to%20some%22&f=false, Seven Councils Press, ISBN 0966086007 ISBN 9780966086003 p. 1013, also in A Guide to the Thought of St. Augustine (1960) by H. Regnery, pp. 232-233 http://books.google.com/books?id=3sYIAQAAIAAJ&q=A+Guide+to+the+Thought+of+St.+Augustine&dq=A+Guide+to+the+Thought+of+St.+Augustine&hl=en&ei=Kp3yTfD8Lce4twfNs-j4Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ
De Baptismo
“The lust for power, which of all human vices was found in its most concentrated form in the Roman people as a whole, first established its victory in a few powerful individuals, and then crushed the rest of an exhausted country beneath the yoke of slavery.
For when can that lust for power in arrogant hearts come to rest until, after passing from one office to another, it arrives at sovereignty? Now there would be no occasion for this continuous progress if ambition were not all-powerful; and the essential context for ambition is a people corrupted by greed and sensuality.”
<p>Ipsa libido dominandi, quae inter alia uitia generis humani meracior inerat uniuerso populo Romano, postea quam in paucis potentioribus uicit, obtritos fatigatosque ceteros etiam iugo seruitutis oppressit.</p><p>Nam quando illa quiesceret in superbissimis mentibus, donec continuatis honoribus ad potestatem regiam perueniret? Honorum porro continuandorum facultas non esset, nisi ambitio praeualeret. Minime autem praeualeret ambitio, nisi in populo auaritia luxuriaque corrupto.</p>
as translated by H. Bettenson (1972), Book 1, Chapter 31, p. 42
The City of God (early 400s)
“Love the sinner and hate the sin.”
Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum.
Opera Omnia, Vol II. Col. 962, letter 211
Alternate translation: With love for mankind and hatred of sins (vices).
“The verdict of the world is conclusive.”
Securus iudicat orbis terrarum.
III, 24
Contra epistulam Parmeniani
Second Homily, as translated by John Burnaby (1955), p. 274
Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John (414)
16A:11:2
Sermons
“Christ is not valued at all unless He be valued above all.”
Fuente: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 395
“Do not despair: one thief was saved. Do not presume: one thief was damned.”
Attributed to St. Augustine in The Repentance of Robert Greene, Master of Arts http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Greene/Repentance_Robert_Greene.pdf (1592) by Robert Greene.
Disputed
Variante: Do not despair; one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume; one of the thieves was damned.
“So if you can manage it, you shouldn’t touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.”
Non ergo accedas, si potes, nisi liberorum procreandorum causa.
278:9; translation from: The works of Saint Augustine, John E. Rotelle, New City Press, 1994, ISBN 1565480600 ISBN 978-1565480605p. 55. http://books.google.com/books?id=5jswAAAAYAAJ&q=%22if+you+can+manage+it,+you+shouldn%E2%80%99t+touch+your+partner,+except+for+the+sake+of+having+children%22&dq=%22if+you+can+manage+it,+you+shouldn%E2%80%99t+touch+your+partner,+except+for+the+sake+of+having+children%22&hl=en&ei=dMJkTaOcCcGC8gah4IjmBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA
Sermons
“Singing is of a lover.”
Cantare amantis est.
Variant translation: To sing is characteristic of the lover.
336
Sermons
“Inter faeces et urinam nascimur.”
We are born between feces and urine.
Attributed to a church father in Freud's Dora; Freud seems to have found it in an anatomy textbook by Josef Hyrtl (1867), where it was attributed to a church father; it may have been invented by Hyrtl. http://books.google.com/books?id=yw3tglAWxNAC&pg=RA1-PR72&lpg=RA1-PR72&dq=%22inter+urinas+et+faeces+nascimur%22+hyrtl&source=bl&ots=2sjrc-dGEs&sig=MDvt7D74M5JPozL1HKnN1FEmxbY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vHJtUuneKJjb4APXq4CIAQ&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22inter%20urinas%20et%20faeces%20nascimur%22%20hyrtl&f=false For Hyrtl's quotation see http://books.google.com/books?id=qrEaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA820&dq=nascimur+inauthor:Hyrtl&hl=en&sa=X&ei=z3RtUru2LMzKkAfnm4DoAQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=nascimur%20inauthor%3AHyrtl&f=false.
Misattributed
Variante: We are born amid feces and urine.
Temporibus enim nostris venit imperator in urbem Romam: ibi est templum imperatoris, ibi est sepulcrum piscatoris. Itaque ille ad deprecandam a Domino salutem imperator pius atque christianus non perrexit ad templum imperatoris superbum, sed ad sepulcrum piscatoris, ubi humilis ipsum piscatorem imitaretur, ut tunc respectus aliquid impetraret a Domino, quod superbiens imperator mereri non posset.
341:4; English from: Newly Discovered Sermons, 1997, Edmund Hill, tr., John E. Rotelle, ed., New City Press, New York, ISBN 1565481038 ISBN 9781565481039p. p. 286.
Sermons
“I know, but it is no longer I.”
Supposedly spoken by Augustine to his former concubine when she greeted him in the street, and when he ignored her said "Augustine, it is I!" Actually the quote (Sed ego non sum ego) is from De Poenitentia, Book II https://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/02m/0339-0397,_Ambrosius,_De_Poenitentia_Libri_Duo,_MLT.pdf, Chapter 10 by Ambrose. Ambrose relates it as a fable, not concerning Augustine, as explained here https://truthchallenge.one/blog/2014/11/17/did-st-augustine-say-this-to-a-prostitute/.
Misattributed