Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
SAINT AUGUSTINERight is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWithout God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
SAINT AUGUSTINEFor what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
SAINT AUGUSTINESymbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
SAINT AUGUSTINETo fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWhat then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
SAINT AUGUSTINEUnhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe speak, but it is God who teaches.
SAINT AUGUSTINEPut no faith in salvation through the political order.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWhen God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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 AUGUSTINEHabit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIn order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
SAINT AUGUSTINETrust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
SAINT AUGUSTINE