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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light,—although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
Works. Vol. iii. In Johannis Evangelum, c. tr. 5, Sect. 15.
Saint
Augustine
Saint Augustine
 
354–430, one of the four Latin Fathers, bishop of Hippo (near present-day Annaba, Algeria), b. Tagaste (c.40 mi/60 km S of Hippo).—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.)
 
Pronunciation:  ô´g-stn´´, ô-gs´tn from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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The Confessions of St. Augustine
The autobiography of the great defender of the Church. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. VII, Part 1.
 
Bartlett’s Saint Augustine Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
 
Augustine, 4845 to 4849
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.



 
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