Our progress in holiness exactly corresponds to our progress in the spirit of prayer: he who prays well lives well. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.” — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein… — 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
By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual. — 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
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
Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent.… — 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
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same. — 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
