Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
SAINT AUGUSTINELord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
SAINT AUGUSTINETwo criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThrough the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
SAINT AUGUSTINEChrist is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you understood him, it would not be God.
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 AUGUSTINEThe cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
SAINT AUGUSTINEI was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIt was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe purpose of all wars, is peace.
SAINT AUGUSTINEUnhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
SAINT AUGUSTINENo one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
SAINT AUGUSTINE