St. Augustine
29 quotations
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Love, and do what you like.
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
The greatest evil is physical pain.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.