Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable? — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — 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
The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Our life is a gymnasium of desire… When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that… — 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… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties… — 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
Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“The happy life is this - to rejoice to thee, in thee, and for thee.” — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom. — Saint Augustine 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… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will… — 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
