God has loved us as if there is only one of us Saint Augustine More Quotes by Saint Augustine More Quotes From Saint Augustine The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell. Saint Augustine delightwickedlaw While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear. Saint Augustine stillsmenmean If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell. Saint Augustine paradisehellmercy 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. Saint Augustine guneyemen It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain; but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved, and are daily proving by actual experiment), in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word. Saint Augustine painteachingmen Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance. Saint Augustine lawcharacterorder Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will. Saint Augustine scarydecisionwish Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated. Saint Augustine unitybenefitsbody Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born. Saint Augustine baptismorderchildren It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up. Saint Augustine scandalcovered-upcatholic I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me. Saint Augustine creationevolutionworld Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth. Saint Augustine lying-menmenlying In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero. Saint Augustine studyusualbook Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, "It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you. Saint Augustine voicedoebeautiful The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered. Saint Augustine hippovictorypeople Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time. Saint Augustine madescienceworld Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him. Saint Augustine feettreegiving I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light. Saint Augustine lightselfchildren One loving heart sets another on fire. Saint Augustine fireheart 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. Saint Augustine lightmindbook
