858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

Near our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night, when I [at the age of sixteen] had played until dark on the sandlot with some other juvenile delinquents, we went to shake that tree and carry off its fruit. From it we carried off huge loads, not to feast on, but to throw to the pigs, although we did eat a few ourselves. We did it just because it was forbidden.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.