The De Dono Perseverantiae of Saint Augustine: A Translation with and Introduction and a Commentary

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Catholic University of America Press, 1956 - 310 pages

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Page 24 - ... work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God Who worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Page 26 - For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake; having the same conflict which ye saw in us and now hear to be in us.
Page 15 - Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 162 - In principio erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum ; et Deus erat Verbum : hoc erat in principio apud Deum.
Page 21 - O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God ! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!
Page 57 - You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Page 36 - I will have mercy on whom I have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.
Page 58 - For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
Page 155 - And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables...
Page 232 - I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me in the law of sin, that is in my members. Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death ? The grace of God by Jesus Christ our Lord.

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