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
That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be… — 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
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
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
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
The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you… — 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
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
“The happy life is this - to rejoice to thee, in thee, and for thee.” — 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
When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for… — 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
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have… — 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
Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life… — 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
Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct. — 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
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
