...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless. — 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
God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him. — 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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not. — 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
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
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
If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell. — 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
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
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
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