Saint AugustineThere never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.371Death
Saint AugustineThe world's verdict is conclusive.372Death
Saint AugustinePatience is the companion of wisdom. ✨ The De Patientia of St. Augustine: A Translation with an Introduction and Commentary by Saint Augustine (of Hippo), Paul Bryan, 1963.<… ▶372Philosophy
Saint AugustineAs to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours,… ▶373Humanity
Saint AugustineTo my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.373Love
Saint AugustineGod in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.362Philosophy
Saint AugustineYou have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while ot… ▶373HumanityReflectionTruth
Saint AugustineWhat is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.373Time
Saint AugustineIn no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of im… ▶351DeathLifePolitics
Saint AugustineImagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.351Thought
Saint AugustineCharity is the root of all good works. ✨ Saint Augustine (1992). Sermons 148-183 on the New Testament, p.310, New City Press373Reflection
Saint AugustineDo you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be… ▶373Thought
Saint AugustineGod is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.362Sadness
Saint AugustineIt is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, bu… ▶352Hope
Saint AugustineTrust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.374HopeLoveTime
Saint AugustineIn order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love. ✨ Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). The City of God, p.903, Cath… ▶363HumanityLove
Saint AugustineIf I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?374PhilosophyReading
Saint AugustineWhatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.352Humanity
Saint AugustineConsequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own… ▶353Time
Saint AugustineWhat you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.364Truth
Saint AugustineDrunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is whol… ▶331Reflection
Saint AugustineThe people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered. ✨ Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). The City of God, p.139, Catholic Way… ▶353Humanity
Saint AugustineGod grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.331Hope
Saint AugustineNobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven. ✨ Sermons to the People. Bo… ▶364HumanityReading
Saint AugustineCharity is no substitute for justice withheld. ✨ Majority of one. Book by Sydney J. Harris, p. 283, 1957.342Reading
Saint AugustineWhat is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.365Death
Saint AugustineThe law detects, grace alone conquers sin.321Politics
Saint AugustineA brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good tra… ▶376HumanityLoveSadness
Saint AugustineLet our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times. ✨ Saint Augustine of Hippo, Aeterna Press (1883). Sermons on Selected L… ▶332Time
Saint AugustineThe true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.332Truth
