Rebuked Quotes by Saint Augustine

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

— Saint Augustine

The playthings of our elders are called business.

— Saint Augustine

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

— Saint Augustine

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

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

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

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

— Saint Augustine

It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to…

— Saint Augustine

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

— Saint Augustine

Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

— Saint Augustine

“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.”

— Saint Augustine

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