858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.

You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and have called out, and have shattered my deafness. You have blazed forth with light and have put my blindness to flight! You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you. You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace.