“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
“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
“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
“...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
“[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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
![“[T]hey feel no shame that they themselves are evil amid the things they praise as good. They are more pained if their villa is poor than if their life is bad, as though man's greatest good were to have everything good except himself” quote by Augustine of Hippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/83b/augustine-of-hippo-2589_life_t-hey-feel-no-shame-that-they-themselves_2585216.jpg)
![“Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time came and went from one day to the next; in its coming and its passing it brought me other hopes and other memories. [quoted in Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo, p. 54]” quote by Augustine of Hippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7c2/augustine-of-hippo-2589_change_time-takes-no-holiday-it-does-not-roll-i_22609.jpg)
