Saint Augustine Quotes
If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.
Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.
Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?
It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.
So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.
Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.
Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.
The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.
When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.
Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.
Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.
Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.
Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.
It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.
It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.
If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.
It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.
No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.