If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you. — Saint Augustine Christian inspirational Copy Share Image
If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love. — Saint Augustine Catholic Copy Share Image
He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of… — Saint Augustine Christian Copy Share Image
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. — Saint Augustine Faith Copy Share Image
Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. — Saint Augustine Knowledge Copy Share Image
Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would… — Saint Augustine Children Copy Share Image
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself. — Saint Augustine Christian Copy Share Image
God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect. — Saint Augustine Christian Copy Share Image
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is… — Saint Augustine Book Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?...… — Saint Augustine Age Copy Share Image
What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber,… — Saint Augustine Art Copy Share Image
A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be… — Saint Augustine Catholicism Copy Share Image
"Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Near our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night,… — Saint Augustine Age Copy Share Image
...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and… — Saint Augustine Age Copy Share Image
I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline. — Saint Augustine Curiosity Copy Share Image
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. Saint Augustine — Saint Augustine Augustine Copy Share Image
Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself. — Saint Augustine Catholic Copy Share Image
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — Saint Augustine Catholic Copy Share Image
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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