Saint Augustine

Understanding is the reward of faith.

— Saint Augustine

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

— Saint Augustine

This world's a bubble.

— Saint Augustine

Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his…

— Saint Augustine

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth…

— Saint Augustine

By and by never comes.

— Saint Augustine

We should never use the truth to wound.

— Saint Augustine

Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.

— Saint Augustine

There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties…

— Saint Augustine

If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate…

— Saint Augustine

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

— Saint Augustine

I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

— Saint Augustine

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the…

— Saint Augustine

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

— Saint Augustine

Salvation is God's way of making us real people.

— Saint Augustine

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

— Saint Augustine

It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what…

— Saint Augustine

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a…

— Saint Augustine

The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet…

— Saint Augustine

Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes…

— Saint Augustine

The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and…

— Saint Augustine

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

— Saint Augustine

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions…

— Saint Augustine

“The soul is the life whereby we are joined into the body.”

— Saint Augustine

Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of…

— Saint Augustine