My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?...… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
That one woman is both mother and virgin, not in spirit only but even in body. In spirit she is mother, not… — 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
Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you… — 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
