Quotes from St. Augustine

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

He that is not jealous is not in love.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes neccessity.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

In as much as love grows in you, so in you beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

But just a minute, Mr. Poor Man; consider whether you can, in fact, enter. What if you're poor, and also happen to be greedy? What if you're sunk in destitution, and at the same time on fire with avarice? So if that's what you're like, whoever you are that are poor, it's not because you haven't wanted to be rich, but because you haven't been able to. So God doesn't inspect your means, but he observes your will.

Anger is a weed; hate is the tree.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues: hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Love the sinner and hate the sin.