To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God . — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom. — 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
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He… — 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
