Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God suffers not the pain of repentance, nor is He deceived in any matter, so that He would wish to correct that… — 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
For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If… — 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
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained;… — 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
