Saint Augustine
What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.Collection: Christian
Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.Collection: Sin
If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.Collection: Moving
Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.Collection: Men
We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.Collection: Mistake
Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.Collection: Progress
Our heart is restless until it rests in You.Collection: Heart
Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.Collection: Fighting
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.Collection: Humility
No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.Collection: Baptism
We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.Collection: Giving
Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.Collection: Two
We should never use the truth to wound.Collection: Life
That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.Collection: Love
He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.Collection: Love
A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.Collection: Discipline
Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.Collection: Safe
God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.Collection: Doe
God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!Collection: Love Is
Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.Collection: Used
The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.Collection: Purpose
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.Collection: Exercise
That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.Collection: Fire
Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.Collection: Wish
The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.Collection: Beauty
Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.Collection: Innocence
God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.Collection: Sex
Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.Collection: Self
Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love.Collection: Depth
The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.Collection: Passion
What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!Collection: Prayer
I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.Collection: Soul
It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.Collection: Church
When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.Collection: Pain
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.Collection: Guilt
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.Collection: Heart
What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instructionCollection: Eye
Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.Collection: Life
O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!Collection: Saint
Make friends with angels.Collection: Inspiring
For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God.Collection: Angel
Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.Collection: Scary
Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.Collection: War
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.Collection: Punishment
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.Collection: Philosophical
What do you possess if you possess not God?Collection: Saint
Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.Collection: Father
He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.Collection: Doe
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.Collection: Catholic