Saint Augustine Quotes
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Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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Hear the other side.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
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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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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
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This world's a bubble.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.
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And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.
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God is best known in not knowing him.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.
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He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.