“What should you, O man, do, you who seek your own glory whenever you do anything good, while when you do something… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“You are God and Lord of all you have created. In you are the constant causes of inconstant things. All mutable things… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“What art Thou then, my God? What, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord?or who is God save… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“If the things of this world delight you, praise God for them but turn your love away from them and give it… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“What great good, then, we are to expect and hope from participating in his divinity, when even his distress calms us and… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Man himself is a great deep, whose very hairs Thou numberest, O Lord, and they fall not to the ground without Thee.… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“All of nature, therefore, is good, since the Creator of all nature is supremely good. But nature is not supremely and immutably… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“In this universe, even what is called evil, when it is rightly ordered and kept in its place, commends the good more… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Indeed we also work, but we are only collaborating with God who works, for his mercy has gone before us. It has… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“We are inflamed, by Thy Gift we are kindled; and are carried upwards; we glow inwardly, and go forwards. We ascend Thy ways that… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Faith seeks, understanding finds. This is why the prophet says, ‘Unless you believe, you will not understand” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time came and… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“So it falls out that in this world, in evil days like these, the Church walks onward like a wayfarer stricken by the world's… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Pride is the beginning of sin. And what is pride but the craving for undue exaltation? And this is undue exaltation - when the… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Variation on the middle sentence: A thing is not necessarily false because it is badly expressed, nor true because it is expressed magnificently.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Run to and fro everywhere, holy fires, beautiful fires; for you are the light of the world, nor are you put under a bushel.… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Let Him do what pleases Him; let Him disclose Himself when it pleases Him! I now commit myself wholly to His care and clemency.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“and even now we labor in our residual gloom, until in your only Son we become your righteousness; for that righteousness is like God's… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury. Moreover, a people becomes avaricious and luxurious… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of the faith is to see what we believe.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
