When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and… — 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
Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon. — 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
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power. — 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… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds… — 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
![“AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness… In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.” quote by Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a2e/saint-augustine-328_deceiving_augustinethe-wounds-of-a-friend-are-bett_220220.png)
