St. Augustine Quotes

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.

Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking.

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.

The verdict of the world is conclusive.

Whoever possesses God is happy.

We judge all things according to the divine truth.

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?

My weight is my love.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?

Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

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.

Singing is a lover's thing.

One loving heart sets another on fire.

Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

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.

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.

No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.

The Devil invented gambling.

If you comprehend, it is not God.

Give what You command and command what You will.

Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

If faith fails, prayer perishes.

By and by never comes.

The diversity of language alienates man from man

Love God, then do what you will.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

The world's verdict is conclusive.

Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

Cantare amantis est ... Singing belongs to one who loves." (s. 336, 1 – PL 38, 1472).

I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.

There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own

The measure of love is to love without measure.

It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost and was found is saved from being lost again.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute don't accept because you will lose one friend on the other hand if two strangers come with the same request accept because you will gain one friend.

Order your soul reduce your wants live in charity associate in Christian community obey the laws trust in Providence.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.

What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.