The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine Evil Copy Share Image
Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee. — Saint Augustine Art Copy Share Image
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother. — Saint Augustine Christian Copy Share Image
To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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
Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and… — Saint Augustine Abundance Copy Share Image
When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does… — Saint Augustine Blessing Copy Share Image
It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual. — Saint Augustine Eternal Copy Share Image
I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom… — Saint Augustine Commandments Copy Share Image
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is… — Saint Augustine Adultery Copy Share Image
For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death… — Saint Augustine Death Copy Share Image
Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made… Give milk, O mother,… — Saint Augustine Bread 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
I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic… — Saint Augustine Authority Copy Share Image
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of… — Saint Augustine Approval Copy Share Image
What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God… — Saint Augustine Age Copy Share Image
To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits… — Saint Augustine Certainty Copy Share Image
God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
