No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless. — 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
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
Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder. — 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
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
He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He… — 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
There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God… — 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
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
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of… — 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
We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we… — 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
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
It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was… — Saint Augustine 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
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
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
![“For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are…” quote by Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2d2/saint-augustine-328_doe_for-you-god-are-infinite-and-never-chang_230596.jpg)
