858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

The verdict of the world is conclusive.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous, nor is it to be believed that its tradition is anything except apostolic.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.