Saint Augustine

One loving heart sets another on fire.

— Saint Augustine

Truth is not private property.

— Saint Augustine

Between urine and filth we are born.

— Saint Augustine

The Devil invented gambling.

— Saint Augustine

Charity is the root of all good works.

— Saint Augustine

I believe in order to understand

— Saint Augustine

Whole prayer is nothing but love.

— Saint Augustine

Your wisdom should be without pride.

— Saint Augustine

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

— Saint Augustine

Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.

— Saint Augustine

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

— Saint Augustine

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

— Saint Augustine

We judge all things according to the divine truth.

— Saint Augustine

God without us will not as we without God cannot.

— Saint Augustine

Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.

— Saint Augustine

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

— Saint Augustine

“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.”

— Saint Augustine

So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.

— Saint Augustine

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

— Saint Augustine

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would…

— Saint Augustine

Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.

— Saint Augustine

God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.

— Saint Augustine

Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they…

— Saint Augustine

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

— Saint Augustine

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth…

— Saint Augustine

What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime,…

— Saint Augustine

The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the…

— Saint Augustine

Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a…

— Saint Augustine

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and…

— Saint Augustine

If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate…

— Saint Augustine

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When…

— Saint Augustine

One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation…

— Saint Augustine

I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it…

— Saint Augustine

Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which…

— Saint Augustine

Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end…

— Saint Augustine

When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by…

— Saint Augustine

The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and…

— Saint Augustine

Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was…

— Saint Augustine

Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and…

— Saint Augustine

For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one…

— Saint Augustine