Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely. The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we… — 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
In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in… — 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
As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Divine Scripture is wont to frame, as it were, allurements for children from the things which are found in the creature; whereby,… — 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
