The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me. — 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
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience. — 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
The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to… — 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
The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according… — 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
To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know… — 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… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort… — 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
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