Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
SAINT AUGUSTINELearn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThrough the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
SAINT AUGUSTINEFor what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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 AUGUSTINEIf you understood him, it would not be God.
SAINT AUGUSTINELove is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIt’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
SAINT AUGUSTINETwo criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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 AUGUSTINEIf you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIndeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
SAINT AUGUSTINELove begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
SAINT AUGUSTINE