What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him. — Saint Augustine God Copy Share Image
“For whence had that former sorrow so easily penetrated to the quick, but that I had poured out my soul upon the… — Saint Augustine Grief Copy Share Image
Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God. — 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 Christian Copy Share Image
The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed. — Saint Augustine Bible Copy Share Image
In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives… — Saint Augustine Angel Copy Share Image
What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense. — Saint Augustine God Copy Share Image
Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth. — Saint Augustine Catholic Copy Share Image
Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an… — Saint Augustine Chaste Copy Share Image
Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his… — Saint Augustine Creator Copy Share Image
Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you… — 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 Apathy Copy Share Image
Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful… — Saint Augustine Awe Copy Share Image
Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“And if all could with one voice be asked whether they wished to be happy, there is no doubt they would all… — Saint Augustine Happiness Copy Share Image
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace. — Saint Augustine Anti war Copy Share Image
Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to… — Saint Augustine Advantage Copy Share Image
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine Light Copy Share Image
Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens. — Saint Augustine Anger Copy Share Image
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour. — Saint Augustine Conscience Copy Share Image
God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of… — Saint Augustine Almighty Copy Share Image
I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so. — Saint Augustine Authority Copy Share Image
Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen. — Saint Augustine Best eat pray love Copy Share Image
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine Happiness Copy Share Image
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee. — Saint Augustine Heart Copy Share Image
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are… — Saint Augustine Emperor 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
“Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.” — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin. — Saint Augustine Angel Copy Share Image
I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so. — Saint Augustine Authority Copy Share Image
Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than… — Saint Augustine Angel Copy Share Image