Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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 Image
I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write. — 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
Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself. — 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
