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
If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice,… — 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
The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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
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
If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things. — 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
I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty:… — 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
