Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
SAINT AUGUSTINELife is a misery, death an uncertainty.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThrough the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHumility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWhere your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIn my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
SAINT AUGUSTINELord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
SAINT AUGUSTINEDo what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
SAINT AUGUSTINEPatience is the companion of wisdom.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe speak, but it is God who teaches.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHeaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
SAINT AUGUSTINEBeware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
SAINT AUGUSTINEYou are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
SAINT AUGUSTINE