The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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 AUGUSTINEWhat are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
SAINT AUGUSTINEBeware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you understood him, it would not be God.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIn my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
SAINT AUGUSTINESince love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINEBad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
SAINT AUGUSTINEI want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
SAINT AUGUSTINESin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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 AUGUSTINEThe punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
SAINT AUGUSTINENo one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
SAINT AUGUSTINE