I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
Saint AugustineWhat is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.
Saint AugustineIdolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
Saint AugustineCyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born.
Saint Augustine