858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love....

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.