Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace. — 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
Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men. — 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
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
By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through… — 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
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
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
Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God;… — 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
Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I… — 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
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
You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head,… — 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
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
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
Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean,… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of 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 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
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
... 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
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
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