St. Augustine quote: "At the resurrection the substance of our bodies, however disintegrated, will be united. We must not fear that the omnipotence of God cannot recall all the particles that have been consumed by fire or by beast, or dissolved into dust and ashes, or decomposed into water, or evaporated into air."

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
ST AUGUSTINE

Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet
ST. AUGUSTINE

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Punishment is justice for the unjust.
ST. AUGUSTINE

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
ST. AUGUSTINE

God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his p...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bis...
ST. AUGUSTINE

If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: fo...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment.
ST. AUGUSTINE

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 One can say: "I will, but my body does not ob...
ST. AUGUSTINE

God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should s...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastin...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 The truth is neither mi...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 But when does flesh receive the bread which He ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

What is Christ's joy in us, but that He deigns to rejoice on our account? And what is our Joy, which...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Picture God as saying to you, "My son, why is it that day by day you rise, and pray, and genuflect, ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
ST. AUGUSTINE

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
ST. AUGUSTINE

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long course...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end o...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, wit...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 What art Thou then, my God? What, but the Lor...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 It is not that we keep His commandments f...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 None can become fit for the future life, who h...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 We need not despair of any man, s...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Whoever has Christ in his heart, so that no earthly or temporal things -- not even those that are le...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Ye have enemies; for who can live on this earth...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Other sins find their ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not becau...
ST. AUGUSTINE

But when does flesh receive the bread which He calls His flesh? The faithful know and receive the Bo...
ST. AUGUSTINE

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
ST. AUGUSTINE

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departe...
ST AUGUSTINE

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
ST AUGUSTINE

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE

Give me chastity and continence, but not quite yet.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE

The greatest evil is physical pain.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered,'' I am not He, but He made me.''
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be goo...
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
AUGUSTINE

The world is a great big book, of which those who never travel read only one page.
AUGUSTINE

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Custom is second nature.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

The verdict of the world is conclusive.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

He who labours, prays.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I alr...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

There is no possible source of evil except good.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not po...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Hear the other side.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of h...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God is best known in not knowing him.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without cea...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of se...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

To seek the highest good is to live well.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in e...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by other...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scatt...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

The purpose of all wars, is peace.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Love, and do what you like.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on th...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

This world's a bubble.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospe...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste...
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one...
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

Is this true or only clever?
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good...
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

Libraries are not made, they grow
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

History is a pageant, not a philosophy.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured t...
NORMAN AUGUSTINE

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
JAMES AUGUSTINE

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one pla...
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is The computer is down
NORMAN AUGUSTINE

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
JAMES AUGUSTINE

Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

As certain as the Correggiosity of Correggio.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbou...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Unless you believe, you will not understand.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

The argument is at an end.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

The greatest evil is physical pain.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Punishment is justice for the unjust.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long cours...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Th...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

That great dust-heap called 'history'.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwell...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long cou...
AUGUSTINE SAINT

You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.
AUGUSTINE SAINT

You can't go down 1-2-3 in two innings in a game like that. You can't after spending the past two da...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ

I don't know what to expect. I would just like us to go out there and play hard. We have some good t...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ

Carl can play anywhere because he is so versatile. John has done a good job of showing me that he wa...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ

I am not satisfied with going from blowout losses to just losses. We are getting better as a team, b...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ

I think the team is still hung up on what happened in Santa Rosa.
AUGUSTINE RUIZ

I think it was one and fifteen?
AUGUSTINE RUIZ

The kid's got a rocket for an arm. He's played in the outfield, but he wanted to try shortstop, and ...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ

They will be our horses for us on the mound. They are the only returning players that have any exper...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ

Why do you object to war? Surely not, because men, who eventually die anyway, are killed in war? St
AUGUSTINE HIPPO

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
AUGUSTINE HIPPO

Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, an...
AUGUSTINE HIPPO

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ...
AUGUSTINE HIPPO

He was at least seven yards offside.
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN

It's back to the drawing board and planning for the future.
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN

We want to compensate for missing the World Cup. We have paid back Tunisia, and we want to do the sa...
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN

We have the ingredients to make up for the last three or four Nations Cups where we have not won the...
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN

I want to assure you that we'll work as a team and make sure we secure the three points in the remai...
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN

We paid for underrating Zimbabwe and Angola. We now have the chance to prove ourselves again.
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN

He's still got all the qualities and I try to bring him on for at least one hour.
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN

We could have been 3-0 down at halftime and in the second half as well.
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN

We want to compensate for missing out on the World Cup and also for not winning the Nations Cup for ...
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN

I am waiting for further instructions from the coaches but we shall see how it will go.
AUGUSTINE CHOGE

I don't know how to describe myself, I'm so happy.
AUGUSTINE CHOGE

I was just relaxing because the top athletes who should have made the race faster were not there.
AUGUSTINE CHOGE

I've beaten him once and he's beaten me once, he's a very good runner.
AUGUSTINE CHOGE

I am ready to double in Commonwealth Games and world cross-country championships if given the chance...
AUGUSTINE CHOGE

To Carthage I came, where there sang all around my ears a cauldron of unholy loves.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

He that is jealous is not in love.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first th...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is ha...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with se...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

It really hasn't settled in yet that it's almost over. It seems like yesterday that we just got here...
JAMES AUGUSTINE

At the resurrection the substance of our bodies, however disintegrated, will be united. We must not fear that the omnipotence of God cannot recall all the particles that have been consumed by fire or by beast, or dissolved into dust and ashes, or decomposed into water, or evaporated into air.

St. Augustine

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