The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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Heaven 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.
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