In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good? — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine 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… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One… — 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
