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
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon. — 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
Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying. — 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 God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good? — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him. — 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
If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love. — 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
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
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
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share
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
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
“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
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
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself. — Saint Augustine Copy Share
![“For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are…” quote by Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d2/saint-augustine-328_doe_for-you-god-are-infinite-and-never-chang_230596.jpg)
