Quotes from Saint Augustine

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

God has loved us as if there is only one of us

He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.

Hear the other side. (Audi Partem Alteram)

Hence, a devout Christian must avoid astrologers and all impious soothsayers, especially when they tell the truth, for fear of leading his soul into error by consorting with demons and entangling himself with the bonds of such association.

Late have I loved thee oh beauty so ancient yet so new

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

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.

Man is God truly alive

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.

Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will destroy everything with lust.

The argument is at an end.

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

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

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

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.