No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
-
-
I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
It’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 AUGUSTINE -
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
God gives where he finds empty hands.
SAINT AUGUSTINE