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
For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When… — 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
God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance… — 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
Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered. — 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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