St. Augustine Quotes
Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.
It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.
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.
In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.
The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.
God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.
It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.
For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.
God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.
Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.
I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.
Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.
You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.
When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on.
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.
Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
