Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also… — 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
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty. — 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
I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things… — 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
