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
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
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
...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless. — 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
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 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
Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder. — 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
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
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
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
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
