You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man,… — 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
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who… — Saint Augustine 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
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
Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“The happy life is this - to rejoice to thee, in thee, and for thee.” — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according… — 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
