“was not yet in love, but I was in love with love, and from the very depth of my need hated myself… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love, and the future to God's providence.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Greed is not a defect in the gold that is desired but in the man who loves it perversely by falling from… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“And what did it profit me, that all the books I could procure of the so-called liberal arts, I, the vile slave… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“If you find physical pleasure in earthly experiences, use the occasion to praise God for these gifts. Turn your love not on… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“If the things of this world delight you, praise God for them but turn your love away from them and give it… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Faith will falter if the authority of holy scripture is shaken; and if faith falters, love itself decays. For if someone lapses… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“It is this Good which we are commanded to love with our whole heart, with our whole mind, and with all our… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“So anyone who thinks that he has understood the divine scriptures or any part of them, but cannot by his understanding build… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“The reader of these reflections of mine on the Trinity should bear in mind that my pen is on the watch against… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“I did not yet love, and I loved to love; I sought what I might love, in love with loving.” — 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
