All SAINT AUGUSTINE Quotes about “Children”

“That one woman is both mother and virgin, not in spirit only but even in body. In spirit she is mother, not of our head, who is our Savior himself-of whom all, even she herself, are rightly called children of the bridegroom-but plainly she is the mother of us who are his members, because by love she has cooperated so that the faithful, who are the members of that head, might be born in the Church. In body, indeed, she is the Mother of that very head.”
“Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?”
“I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.”
“Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.”
“The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.”
“So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.”
“A marriage without children is the world without the sun.”
“Divine Scripture is wont to frame, as it were, allurements for children from the things which are found in the creature; whereby, according to their measure, and as it were by steps, the affections of the weak may be moved to seek those things that are above, and to leave those things that are below. But the same Scripture rarely employs those things which are spoken properly of God, and are not found in any creature; as, for instance, that which was said to Moses, I am that I am; and, I Am has sent me to you."”

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