Saint Augustine
It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.Collection: Covered Up
If you comprehend, it is not God.Collection: God
We judge all things according to the divine truth.Collection: Judging
For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.Collection: Self
In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.Collection: Christian
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.Collection: Men
One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.Collection: Too Much
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.Collection: Christian
My weight is my love.Collection: Weight
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.Collection: Hope
If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.Collection: Christian
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.Collection: Mother
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.Collection: Stars
Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.Collection: Lord
Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.Collection: Thinking
Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.Collection: Men
If you don't believe it you won't understand it.Collection: Christian
When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.Collection: Peace
You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.'Collection: Men
Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?Collection: Atheist
Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.Collection: Victory
It is a sin to judge any man by his postCollection: Men
For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply "today."Collection: Mean
Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.Collection: Soul
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.Collection: Men
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.Collection: Change
For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.Collection: Men
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.Collection: Men
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?Collection: Falling In Love
What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)Collection: Inspirational
Doubt is but another element of faith.Collection: Faith
Between urine and filth we are born.Collection: Filth
Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.Collection: Punishment
There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.Collection: Sheep
If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.Collection: Men
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.Collection: Hands
If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.Collection: Faith
Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.Collection: Christian Inspirational
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.Collection: Love
Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain.Collection: Faith
God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies gray and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life, to your honor and glory.Collection: Running
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.Collection: Motivational
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.Collection: Wish
Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.Collection: Love Is
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.Collection: Philosophical
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.Collection: Giving
It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.Collection: Eye
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.Collection: Love
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.Collection: Faith