In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine Emptiness Copy Share Image
Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder. — Saint Augustine Birth Copy Share Image
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty. — Saint Augustine Beauty Copy Share Image
I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me. — Saint Augustine Free will Copy Share Image
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — 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
Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are… — Saint Augustine Doubt Copy Share Image
Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for… — Saint Augustine Cry Copy Share Image
There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God… — Saint Augustine Baptism Copy Share Image
Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in… — 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 Change Copy Share Image
They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. .… — Saint Augustine Darkness Copy Share Image
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You. — Saint Augustine Catholic Copy Share Image
Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother. — Saint Augustine Brother Copy Share Image
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. — Saint Augustine Miracles Copy Share Image
We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future. — Saint Augustine Compassion Copy Share Image
Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive. — Saint Augustine Catholic Copy Share Image
What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense. — Saint Augustine God Copy Share Image
Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth. — Saint Augustine Catholic Copy Share Image
Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an… — Saint Augustine Chaste Copy Share Image
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life. — Saint Augustine Good life Copy Share Image
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with… — Saint Augustine Justice Copy Share Image
"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live. — Saint Augustine Blessed Copy Share Image
“For whence had that former sorrow so easily penetrated to the quick, but that I had poured out my soul upon the… — Saint Augustine Grief Copy Share Image
The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed. — Saint Augustine Bible Copy Share Image
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine Christian Copy Share Image
Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives… — Saint Augustine Angel Copy Share Image
Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. — Saint Augustine Art Copy Share Image
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave. — Saint Augustine Good man Copy Share Image
Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee. — Saint Augustine Lord Copy Share Image
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that… — Saint Augustine Freedom Copy Share Image