The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God… — 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
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
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
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
