God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they… — 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