Saint Augustine
When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.Collection: Book
You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.Collection: Humility
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.Collection: Punishment
It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.Collection: Humble
Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.Collection: Heart
"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.Collection: Order
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.Collection: Beautiful
Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .Collection: Love You
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.Collection: Wisdom
Love is ever new because it never groweth old.Collection: Love
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.Collection: Life
By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].Collection: Fall
Beauty is the brilliance of truth.Collection: Design
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .Collection: Serpent
If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.Collection: Feet
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?Collection: Believe
Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.Collection: Angel
I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.Collection: Men
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.Collection: Inspirational
They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.Collection: Needs
When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.Collection: God
A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.Collection: Blessing
Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.Collection: Truth
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.Collection: Sex
Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to BelieveCollection: Believe
The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.Collection: Law
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.Collection: Life
If the future and the past really exist, where are they?Collection: Past
Your wisdom should be without pride.Collection: Pride
One loving heart sets another on fire.Collection: Heart
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.Collection: God
Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.Collection: Daughter
Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.Collection: Ignorance
The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.Collection: Heart
Understanding is the reward of faith.Collection: Understanding
Grace alone brings about every good work in us.Collection: Grace
Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.Collection: Adversity
I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.Collection: Believe
If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.Collection: Truth
He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.Collection: Christian
Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.Collection: Want
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.Collection: Honor
Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.Collection: God
It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.Collection: Book
On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what it signifies, or about the greatness of the reality of which it is a sacrament. Your eyes are looking at bread and cup. This is the evidence before your physical sight. But your faith must be instructed concerning it- this bread being Christ 's Body and the cup containing His Blood. Though perhaps these words may be enough to initiate faith, faith must be further instructed in accordance with the Prophet's words: 'Believe that you may understand'Collection: Believe
Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.Collection: Believe
The verdict of the world is conclusive.Collection: World
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.Collection: Passion
In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.Collection: Attitude