Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

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

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

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

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.