“There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“You are God and Lord of all you have created. In you are the constant causes of inconstant things. All mutable things… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“...It is no less impossible for us not to taste as bitter the death of those whose life for us was such… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Life is a misery, death an uncertainty. Suppose it steals suddenly upon me, in what state shall I leave this world? When… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“After saying all that, what have we said, my God, my life, my holy sweetness? What does anyone who speaks of you… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Our whole business therefore in this life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“[T]hey feel no shame that they themselves are evil amid the things they praise as good. They are more pained if their… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“O mortals, how long will you be heavy-hearted? Life has come down to you, and are you reluctant to ascend and live?… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“I look forward, not to what lies ahead of me in this life and will surely pass away, but to my eternal… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Indeed we also work, but we are only collaborating with God who works, for his mercy has gone before us. It has… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“When we transform our old life and give our spirit a new image, we find it hard and tiring to turn back… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“We are inflamed, by Thy Gift we are kindled; and are carried upwards; we glow inwardly, and go forwards. We ascend Thy ways that… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Faith seeks, understanding finds. This is why the prophet says, ‘Unless you believe, you will not understand” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time came and… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“So it falls out that in this world, in evil days like these, the Church walks onward like a wayfarer stricken by the world's… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Pride is the beginning of sin. And what is pride but the craving for undue exaltation? And this is undue exaltation - when the… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Variation on the middle sentence: A thing is not necessarily false because it is badly expressed, nor true because it is expressed magnificently.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Run to and fro everywhere, holy fires, beautiful fires; for you are the light of the world, nor are you put under a bushel.… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Let Him do what pleases Him; let Him disclose Himself when it pleases Him! I now commit myself wholly to His care and clemency.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“and even now we labor in our residual gloom, until in your only Son we become your righteousness; for that righteousness is like God's… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury. Moreover, a people becomes avaricious and luxurious… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of the faith is to see what we believe.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
