St. Augustine Quotes
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.
Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either is enduring fame.
A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.
There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector
It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.
Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.
Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.
Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can American continue to maintain a high standard of living, including providing national security for its citizens.
Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.
Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.
Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.
The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.
Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.
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.