... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of… — 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
A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation… — 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