858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.

It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.