One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow. — Saint Augustine Choose love Copy Share Image
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. — Saint Augustine Cheerful Copy Share Image
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his… — Saint Augustine Blessedness Copy Share Image
All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep… — Saint Augustine Coaching Copy Share Image
Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give. — Saint Augustine Admonish Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few… — Saint Augustine Comparison 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.… — Saint Augustine Baptism Copy Share Image
For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean,… — Saint Augustine About yourself Copy Share Image
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine Architecture Copy Share Image
It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well… — 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
A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according… — Saint Augustine Apostles 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
On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what… — Saint Augustine Altars 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 Augustine Copy Share Image
Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head,… — Saint Augustine Christian women 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
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king… — Saint Augustine Art Copy Share Image