858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

It is a sin to judge any man by his post

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

Love and say it with your life.

Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face. This alone I know, that without you all to me is misery, woe outside myself and woe within, and all wealth but penury, if it is not my God.

For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Love and do as you will.

Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.

The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.