For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. .… — 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
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
Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ...… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God… — 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
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
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