...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless. — 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
So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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
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
God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him. — 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
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
You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can… — 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
God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well… — 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
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
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
Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of… — 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
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
Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you… — 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
Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical… — 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
Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few… — 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
Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is… — 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
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
If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we… — 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
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
The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a… — 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
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
If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about… — 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
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