St. Augustine Quotes

When large numbers of people share their joy in common the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

What then is time? If no one asks me I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks I do not know.

If we live good lives the times are also good. As we are such are the times.

By-and-by never comes.

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

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

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

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

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.

it is a higher glory... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Le bonheur, c'est continuer à désirer ce que l'on a déjà.

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart?

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.

If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God.

Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good?

I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me.

Purity both of the body and the soul rests on the steadfastness of the will strengthened by God's grace, and cannot be forcibly taken from an unwilling person.

... The soul which is led by God and His wisdom, rather than by bodily concupiscence, will certainly never consent to the desire aroused in its own flesh by another's lust.

A community is nothing else than a harmonious collection of individuals.

The end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest.

For every man, however laudably he lives, yet yields in some points to the lust of the flesh.

Indeed, the only cause of their [Rome] perishing was that they chose for their protectors gods condemned to perish.

When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment

Music, that is the science or the sense of proper modulation, is likewise given by God's generosity to mortals having rational souls in order to lead them to higher things.

No girl can forget the day she lost her virginity, or the circumstance that led to it

Evil knows its time to end is soon at hand, hence why it is more than determined to succeed.

Do not feel surprise at being schooled amid toil: you are being schooled for a wondrous destiny.

You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You.

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you...and protect me, for today I could betray you.

For it is one thing to see the Land of Peace from a wooded ridge, and yet another to walk the road that leads to it.

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.

I was going down and hard. There are a few things in life that suck really badly. Loving someone who doesn't love you back is one of them.

The sizzle I felt being near him was so intense, but I couldn't figure out if they were fireworks or warning flares.

For all that my co-workers put such stock in not being a transfer, we had a definite edge in one area. As a human, you were born knowing that you were going to die.

We weren't a couple, but friends didn't spoon every night. Fate and I were officially in relationship-no-man's-land.

The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.

You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.

Anyone who thought death warmed over didn't look good, had never seen this guy.

You are familiar with World War 2?""Of course I am. I'm dead, not stupid.

I'm dead?""That body is... yes.

I stepped out and the sun was shining. And the birds were chirping. It was the nicest day we'd had in ages. A couple of bunnies scampering about. It could have been the start of a Disney flick.

Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as it is defective, it is evil.