Quotes from St. Augustine

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.

Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will destroy everything with lust.

The argument is at an end.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

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