Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.
Saint Augustine Quotes (91 Quotes)
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
You aspire to great things Begin with little ones.
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
He that is jealous is not in love.
The dove loves when it quarrels the wolf hates when it flatters.
While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.
I asked the whole frame of the world about my God and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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.
To seek the highest good is to live well.
The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
Hell was made for the inquisitive.
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.
God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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