St. Augustine Quotes
I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.
Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past.
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.
When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.
Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.
Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.
Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.
We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.
In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.
Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.
I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?
Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.
Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.
This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.
Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.
Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.
