858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.

If you understand, it is not God.