Saint Augustine Quotes
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
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Custom is second nature.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.
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Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.
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Hear the other side.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.