While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear. — 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
I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother. — 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
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct… — 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
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
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 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
A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man.… — 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
When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good… — 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
God suffers not the pain of repentance, nor is He deceived in any matter, so that He would wish to correct that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
... 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
Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which… — 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
Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds… — 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
When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil. — 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
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into… — 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
Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of… — 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
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
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
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
Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the… — 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
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
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
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
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share
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
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
“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
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
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself. — Saint Augustine Copy Share
