For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only… — 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 God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good? — 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
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
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
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
I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was… — 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
...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless. — 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
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
If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds… — 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
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
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 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
Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying. — 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
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
