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
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
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
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
As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that… — 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
