Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. .… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would… — 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
For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
"Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives… — 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
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