Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
SAINT AUGUSTINEI was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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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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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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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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