858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].

For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

Charity is the root of all good works.

Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.

By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to you own but correct your will to that of God. The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of being converted and of correcting your evil ways.

A marriage without children is the world without the sun.

All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.