Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThrough the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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 AUGUSTINEI want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
SAINT AUGUSTINELove endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe speak, but it is God who teaches.
SAINT AUGUSTINEUnderstanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe that is jealous is not in love.
SAINT AUGUSTINEForgiveness is the remission of sins.
SAINT AUGUSTINETruth is not private property.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf you understood him, it would not be God.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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 AUGUSTINE