For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself. — 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
True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God. — 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
It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. — 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
