He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Our life is a gymnasium of desire… When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ...… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it. — Saint Augustine Copy Share
“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.” — Saint Augustine Copy Share
Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself. — Saint Augustine Copy Share
