Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism.… — 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
If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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
The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ...… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of… — 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
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but 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
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
