858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.

Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.

God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.