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 Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love. Saint Augustine spares silent cry And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee? Saint Augustine earth calling heaven I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid loose? If not, why does it still echo in our ears on all sides, "Let him alone, let him do as he will, for he is not yet baptised?" but as to bodily health, no one says, "Let him be worse wounded, for he is not yet healed." How much better then, had I been at once healed; and then, by my friends' diligence and my own, my soul's recovered health had been kept safe in Thy keeping who gavest it. Saint Augustine echoes soul healing I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself? Saint Augustine mind Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.' Saint Augustine blessed heart men We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone Saint Augustine philosophical weak reason The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. Saint Augustine corruption light spiritual I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write. Saint Augustine writing numbers Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. Saint Augustine recovery catholic freedom In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep (Jn 21:15-19), down to the present episcopate. Saint Augustine catholic miracle sheep You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones. Saint Augustine determination littles inspirational Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment. Saint Augustine punishment lasts suffering Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen. Saint Augustine eye heart may Every infinity... is made finite to God. Saint Augustine hope faith god Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ? Saint Augustine suicide death children Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water." Saint Augustine men believe father Unjust laws aren't laws at all. Saint Augustine unjust-laws unjust law Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars. Saint Augustine stars moon thinking What can be hoped for which is not believed? Saint Augustine The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth. Saint Augustine kindness men
