In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine Absence Copy Share Image
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill. — Saint Augustine Christ Copy Share Image
“Men are so blind in their impiety that, as it were, they bump into mountains and refuse to see what hits them… — Saint Augustine Blind Copy Share Image
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment. — Saint Augustine Astonishment 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
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God . — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it. — Saint Augustine Catholic Copy Share Image
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it. — Saint Augustine Giving Copy Share Image
For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with… — Saint Augustine Lips Copy Share Image
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a… — Saint Augustine Childlike 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 Eternity Copy Share Image
What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken;… — Saint Augustine Failure Copy Share Image
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made… — Saint Augustine Christian Copy Share Image
Divine Scripture is wont to frame, as it were, allurements for children from the things which are found in the creature; whereby,… — Saint Augustine Affection Copy Share Image
What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the… — Saint Augustine Bible Copy Share Image
What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of… — Saint Augustine Ebb and flow Copy Share Image
Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of… — Saint Augustine Beloved Copy Share Image
The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely. The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image