For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.' — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God . — 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 Body 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 Christ Copy Share Image
Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service. — Saint Augustine Catholic Copy Share Image
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me. — Saint Augustine Free will Copy Share Image
I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in… — Saint Augustine Bible Copy Share Image
Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can… — Saint Augustine Earth Copy Share Image
When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for… — 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 Christ Copy Share Image
He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when… — Saint Augustine Cynical Copy Share Image
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty. — Saint Augustine Beauty Copy Share Image
Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive. — Saint Augustine Catholic Copy Share Image
We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future. — Saint Augustine Compassion Copy Share Image
Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother. — Saint Augustine Brother Copy Share Image
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. — Saint Augustine Miracles Copy Share Image
Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are… — Saint Augustine Doubt Copy Share Image
In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You. — Saint Augustine Catholic Copy Share Image
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.” — Saint Augustine Morality Copy Share Image
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible. — Saint Augustine Blessing Copy Share Image
Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder. — Saint Augustine Birth Copy Share Image
Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing… — Saint Augustine Blessed Copy Share Image
In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine Emptiness Copy Share Image
For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light,… — Saint Augustine Desire Copy Share Image
For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes… — Saint Augustine Chance Copy Share Image
