Augustine Quotes
Augustine Quote of the day
It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity.
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.
Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself.
Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.
Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.
You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God.
It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed (Aquinas).
No one should be ashamed to admit that they do not know what they do not know, in case while feigning knowledge, they come to deserve to never know.
432In the end, grace may prove irresistible, but love can never be forced. Augustine knew this.
Prayer is the key that opens heaven
Do not feel surprise at being schooled amid toil: you are being schooled for a wondrous destiny.
I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me.