There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill. — Saint Augustine Christ Copy Share Image
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine Evil Copy Share Image
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy. — Saint Augustine Arrogance Copy Share Image
God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within — Saint Augustine Divine 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 Blessed 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 Bible 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 Giving 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… — Saint Augustine Enlightened Copy Share Image
“Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time, or place,… — Saint Augustine Circumstance Copy Share Image
The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice,… — Saint Augustine Absence Copy Share Image
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses 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 Knowledge Copy Share Image
If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out… — Saint Augustine Cry Copy Share Image
So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever… — 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 Blessed mother Copy Share Image
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and… — Saint Augustine Abundance Copy Share Image
When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does… — Saint Augustine Blessing Copy Share Image
It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual. — Saint Augustine Eternal 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
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine Evil Copy Share Image
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you… — Saint Augustine Body Copy Share Image
Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service. — Saint Augustine Catholic Copy Share Image
Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been… — Saint Augustine Christ 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
There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it. — Saint Augustine Catholic Copy Share Image
