Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be goo...
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO He (Scipio of Rome) did not consider that republic flourishing whose walls stand, but whose morals a...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the pr...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You as...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO [Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wick...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwell...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If you understood him, it would not be God.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, an...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Belatedly I loved thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new, belatedly I loved thee. For see, thou wast w...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to repl...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Tolle, lege: take up and read.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides o...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Pride is the beginning of sin. And what is pride but the craving for undue exaltation? And this is u...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO ... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but be...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO People travel to wonder
at the height of the mountains,
at the huge waves of the seas, AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you. And see, you were within and...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians ha...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to w...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so tha...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you 'today' never comes to an end: and yet our 'toda...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I recall how miserable I was, and how one day you brought me to a realization of my miserable state....
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Trut...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, le...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Life is a misery, death an uncertainty. Suppose it steals suddenly upon me, in what state shall I le...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I look forward, not to what lies ahead of me in this life and will surely pass away, but to my etern...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since
he whom I loved, as if he should...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the fre...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some p...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You br...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and ca...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the B...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO It is not reason which turns the young man from God; it is the flesh. Skepticism but provides him wi...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Why do you object to war? Surely not, because men, who eventually die anyway, are killed in war? St
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Watch, O Lord,
with those who wake,
or watch or weep tonight,
and give your angels ch...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Though I was retreating from the Truth, I appeared to myself to be going toward it because I did not...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO True inner righteousness does not judge according to custom but by the measure of the most perfect l...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastin...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO We speak, but it is God who teaches.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Why, then, do I set before You an ordered account of so many things? it's certainly not through me t...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Love is the beauty of the soul
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first th...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in e...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Patience is the companion of wisdom.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The measure of love is to love without measure.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, t...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO To whatever the soul of man turns, unless toward God, it cleaves to sorrow, even though the things o...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Who can unravel this most snarled, knotty tangle? It is disgusting, and I do not want to look at it ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to los...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, inebriate it, that I ma...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was non...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The throne of wisdom is the soul of the righteous, that is, wisdom sits on the soul of the righteous...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it lose...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO What madness, to love a man as something more than human! I lived in a fever, convulsed with tears a...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold th...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Why do you object to war? Surely not, because men, who eventually die anyway, are killed in war? St
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, an...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO When I then turned toward the scriptures, they appeared to me to be quite unworthy to be compared wi...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The Greeks think they justly honor players, because they worship the gods who demand plays; the Roma...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO 17. He thought that thus fear would act as a curb on lust, and that lust being curbed would not run ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO For why in your calamities do you complain of Christianity, unless because you desire to enjoy your ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see i...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO As Christians, our task is to make daily progress toward God. Our pilgrimage on earth is a school in...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Our wound is serious, but the Physician is all-powerful. Does it seem to you so small a mercy that, ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also o...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associa...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first th...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwell...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the ot...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scatt...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel yo...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The greatest evil is physical pain.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without cea...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of se...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For wher...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long cours...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first o...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Punishment is justice for the unjust.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by other...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of h...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in e...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO A choice from the gods is as useless as the gods themselves!
KRATOS - GOD OF WAR Jesus is very much alive and well in the twenty-first century. Jesus is revealed in the lives and wo...
NIK RIPKEN THE INSANITY OF GOD He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird t...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will lea...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the l...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS To saints, their very slumber is a prayer.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Be...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor t...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlighte...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for the...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS Why do you object to war? Surely not, because men, who eventually die anyway, are killed in war? St
AUGUSTINE HIPPO Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
AUGUSTINE HIPPO Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, an...
AUGUSTINE HIPPO Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ...
AUGUSTINE HIPPO Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?
LOUIS XIV OF FRANCE A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Ch...
LETTERS OF ST. HERMAN OF ALASKA Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
ST AUGUSTINE Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet
ST. AUGUSTINE Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
ST. AUGUSTINE Punishment is justice for the unjust.
ST. AUGUSTINE The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
ST. AUGUSTINE God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his p...
ST. AUGUSTINE Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bis...
ST. AUGUSTINE If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: fo...
ST. AUGUSTINE Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment.
ST. AUGUSTINE The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 One can say: "I will, but my body does not ob...
ST. AUGUSTINE God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should s...
ST. AUGUSTINE