O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. — Saint Augustine Cheerful 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
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his… — Saint Augustine Blessedness Copy Share Image
The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep… — Saint Augustine Coaching Copy Share Image
Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give. — Saint Augustine Admonish Copy Share Image
Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In… — Saint Augustine Heart Copy Share Image
The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them. — Saint Augustine Damnation Copy Share Image
We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance… — Saint Augustine Assurance Copy Share Image
The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few… — Saint Augustine Comparison Copy Share Image
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism.… — Saint Augustine Baptism Copy Share Image
For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine Architecture Copy Share Image
Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean,… — Saint Augustine About yourself Copy Share Image
For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten. — Saint Augustine Catholic 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 Authority Copy Share Image
Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's. — Saint Augustine Christian Copy Share Image
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. — Saint Augustine Trample Copy Share Image
So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to… — Saint Augustine Blessed mother Copy Share Image
You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers. — Saint Augustine Enemies 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
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due… — Saint Augustine Contemplation Copy Share Image
Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy. — Saint Augustine Arrogance Copy Share Image
God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within — Saint Augustine Divine Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom. — Saint Augustine Blessed Copy Share Image
Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out… — Saint Augustine Cry Copy Share Image
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the… — Saint Augustine Giving Copy Share Image
Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love… — Saint Augustine Bible Copy Share Image
God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves. — Saint Augustine Action Copy Share Image
Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace . — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. — Saint Augustine Faithfulness Copy Share Image
