858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?