If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You. — Saint Augustine 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service. — 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 Copy Share Image
There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it. — Saint Augustine 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 Copy Share Image
There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds… — Saint Augustine 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 Copy Share Image
Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it… — 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 Copy Share Image
Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and… — Saint Augustine 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
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
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth,… — Saint Augustine 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 murmur or… — Saint Augustine 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. So, too,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to… — Saint Augustine 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 Copy Share Image
“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.” — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
