If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. Saint Augustine More Quotes by Saint Augustine More Quotes From Saint Augustine In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails. Saint Augustine holiday angel inspirational Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. Saint Augustine philosophical inspirational-life humility Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed. Saint Augustine arrogance together may "Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happiness. Saint Augustine names giving mean Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline. Saint Augustine harsh discipline curiosity 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. Saint Augustine wisdom wise beautiful For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see? Saint Augustine religious faith inspirational Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee. Saint Augustine philosophical heart quiet If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe. Saint Augustine philosophical soul believe Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. Saint Augustine philosophical justice inspiring All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses. Saint Augustine gestures dancing dance Never judge a philosophy by its abuse. Saint Augustine abuse judging philosophy This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God. Saint Augustine saint desire may Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery. Saint Augustine misery habit wish When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live. Saint Augustine soul blessed god Punishment is justice for the unjust. Saint Augustine punishment philosophical justice What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. Saint Augustine ask-me wish time Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so that they would wonder and be astonished at seeing not great but unusual things, who are unmoved by things daily seen. For the government of the world is a greater miracle than feeding five thousand men from five loaves; yet at the former no one wonders, the latter astonishes all men: not as a greater wonder, but as a rarer. Saint Augustine unusual-things christian men This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. Saint Augustine philosophical perfection men What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer! Saint Augustine soul practice prayer
