858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.

It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

Beware of bad Catholics.

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

Between urine and filth we are born.

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.

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not ....