It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our… — Saint Augustine Consumerism Copy Share Image
The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a… — Saint Augustine Authority Copy Share Image
In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I am convinced that in all history there has never been a greater need to Pray for our Pastors than exists right… — Saint Augustine Challenges Copy Share Image
We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it… — Saint Augustine Catholic Copy Share Image
The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it;… — Saint Augustine Charity Copy Share Image
Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all… — Saint Augustine After death 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 Buddhism Copy Share Image
It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat… — Saint Augustine Catholicism Copy Share Image
Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in… — Saint Augustine Bible Copy Share Image
Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can… — Saint Augustine Earth Copy Share Image
Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God… — Saint Augustine Baptism Copy Share Image
As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes… — Saint Augustine Body Copy Share Image
If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds… — 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… — Saint Augustine Childlike Copy Share Image
And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that… — Saint Augustine Eternity Copy Share Image
What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken;… — Saint Augustine Failure Copy Share Image
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made… — Saint Augustine Christian Copy Share Image
And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom… — Saint Augustine Commandments Copy Share Image
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is… — Saint Augustine Adultery Copy Share Image
For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death… — Saint Augustine Death Copy Share Image
He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made… Give milk, O mother,… — Saint Augustine Bread Copy Share Image
Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with… — Saint Augustine Lips Copy Share Image
![“For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are…” quote by Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d2/saint-augustine-328_doe_for-you-god-are-infinite-and-never-chang_230596.jpg)
