Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.
Saint Augustine Quotations
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Hear the other side.
(Audi Partem Alteram)
(Audi Partem Alteram)
The argument is at an end.
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.
Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.
...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
Hear the other side.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Unless you believe, you will not understand.
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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.
Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness.
I was in love with loving.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.