858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.

God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.

God gives where he finds empty hands.

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction