Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far… — 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
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
Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil. — 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
Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he… — 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
The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that… — 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
