St. Augustine Quotes
The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king.
There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power.
When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.
What should you, O man, do, you who seek your own glory whenever you do anything good, while when you do something bad, you figure out ways to blame God.
This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.
This, then, is true liberty: the joy that comes in doing what is right. At the same time, it is also devoted service in obedience to righteous precept.
A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart. Nay, even idolatry is ample evidence of this fact.
That vague and wandering opinion of Deity is declared by an apostle to be ignorance of God:
His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?
if we are wayfarers who want to return home, then we must see the world as a means of transportation (terestibus vel marinis vehiculis) and always remember to distinguish the means and ends.
Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.
For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity.
He didn't get it. That's exactly why I needed my Maker's Mark. You can't throw my life into turmoil, and then screw me out of my bourbon too.
Faith is to believe what we do not see and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
