He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to… — 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
