Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINEComplete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINEMiracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIt is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIn essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
SAINT AUGUSTINEPray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe speak, but it is God who teaches.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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 believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod gives where he finds empty hands.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHabit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
SAINT AUGUSTINETo sing is to pray twice.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe that is jealous is not in love.
SAINT AUGUSTINE