858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated?

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

The measure of love is to love without measuring.

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.