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 The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE 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 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 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 This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
SAINT AUGUSTINE If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For wher...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
SAINT AUGUSTINE This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE I was in love with loving.
SAINT AUGUSTINE You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love,...
SAINT AUGUSTINE O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Hear the other side.
(Audi Partem Alteram)
SAINT AUGUSTINE To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational appreh...
SAINT AUGUSTINE The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spir...
SAINT AUGUSTINE If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel yo...
SAINT AUGUSTINE A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the tim...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Understanding is the reward of faith.
SAINT AUGUSTINE And behold you were within me,
and I out of myself,
and there I searched for you.
SAINT AUGUSTINE He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Due to seeing everything, we begin to stand everything … Due to standing everything, we eventually...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.
SAINT AUGUSTINE You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.
SAINT AUGUSTINE And behold you were within me,and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
SAINT AUGUSTINE People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars; and they pass right by themselves ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Hell was made for the inquisitive.
SAINT AUGUSTINE What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I don't know.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.
SAINT AUGUSTINE God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosp...
SAINT AUGUSTINE We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with se...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but bel...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in the...
SAINT AUGUSTINE While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Love, and do what you will.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
SAINT AUGUSTINE If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the ot...
SAINT AUGUSTINE I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
SAINT AUGUSTINE Did I wish even by stealth to do contrary to Thy law, because by power I could not, so that being a ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
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 is?
SAINT AUGUSTINE Despise not yourselves, ye women; the Son of God was born of a woman
SAINT AUGUSTINE Love, and do what you like
SAINT AUGUSTINE Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
SAINT AUGUSTINE For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE This world's a bubble.
SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE By-and-by has no end. [Lat., Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.]
SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE From many to make one. [Lat., Ex pluribus unum facere.]
SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE The verdict of the world is conclusive. [Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.]
SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not p...
SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. [Lat., De ...
SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE He fashioned hell for the inquisitive. [Lat., Curiosis fabricavit inferos.]
SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE Now he [Nebridius] lives in Abraham's bosom. [Lat., Nunc ille vivit in sinu Abraham.]
SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE God is best known in not knowing him. [Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.]
SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I al...
SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. [Lat...
SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE A child of those tears. [Lat., Filius istarum lacrymarum.]
SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associa...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first th...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwell...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the ot...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scatt...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO 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 OF HIPPO God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel yo...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The greatest evil is physical pain.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without cea...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of se...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For wher...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long cours...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first o...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Punishment is justice for the unjust.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by other...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO