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
Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God suffers not the pain of repentance, nor is He deceived in any matter, so that He would wish to correct that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love… — 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 Copy Share Image
He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father. — 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
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty:… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith… — 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
Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open. — 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