He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
SAINT AUGUSTINESome people, in order to discover God, read books.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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What 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.
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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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Humility 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.
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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Truth is not private property.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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