“For often we wickedly blind ourselves to the occasions of teaching and admonishing them, sometimes even of reprimanding and chiding them, either because we shrink from the labor or are ashamed to offend them, or because we fear to lose… — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Our wound is serious, but the Physician is all-powerful. Does it seem to you so small a mercy that, while you were living in evil and sinning, He did not take away your life, but brought you to belief and forgave your sins? What I suffer is serious, but I trust the Almighty. I would despair of my mortal wound… — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share
“It was foul, and I loved it. I loved to perish. I loved my own — not that for which I erred, but the… — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“There is a Master within Who teaches us. Christ is our Master, and his inspiration and his anointing teaches us. Where his inspiration and his anointing are lacking, it is in vain that words resound in our ears. As Paul the Apostle said: 'I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.' Therefore, whether we plant… — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share
“For often we wickedly blind ourselves to the occasions of teaching and admonishing them, sometimes even of reprimanding and chiding them, either because we… — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from… — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share
“Da quod iubes et iube quod vis Give what thou commandest and command what thou wilt” — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“This is what we love in friends. We love to the point that human conscience feels guilty if we do not love the person… — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Our city must remember that in the ranks of its enemies, lie hid fellow citizens to be, and that it is well to bear… — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“The aim of our orator, then, when speaking of things that are just and holy and good--and he should not speak of anything else--the aim, as I say, that he pursues to the best of his ability when he speaks of these things is to be listened to with understanding, with pleasure, and with obedience. He should be in no… — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share
“Come, O Lord, and stir our hearts. Call us back to yourself. Kindle your fire in us.” — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“...a man is not in any difficulty in making a reply according to his faith ... to those who try to defame our Holy… — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of what a person says is in direct proportion to his progress in learning the holy scriptures--and I am not speaking of… — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
