Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.


Saint Augustine

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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