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
What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.” — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them. — 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
What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be… — 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
Divine Scripture is wont to frame, as it were, allurements for children from the things which are found in the creature; whereby,… — 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
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