Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do… — 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
"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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
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
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
The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely. The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it;… — 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
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty:… — 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
As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout… — 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
