Quotes from St. Augustine
Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.
- St. Augustine
Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.
- St. Augustine
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.
- St. Augustine
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
- St. Augustine
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
- St. Augustine
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness
- St. Augustine
When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.
- St. Augustine
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
- St. Augustine
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.
- St. Augustine
Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
- St. Augustine
Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.
- St. Augustine
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
- St. Augustine