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 all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother. Saint Augustine brother men life A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. Saint Augustine hippo truth You cannot attain to charity except through humility. Saint Augustine charity humility The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them. Saint Augustine damnation salvation use Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for." Saint Augustine inspiration christian faith If the future and the past really exist, where are they? Saint Augustine ifs past As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it. Saint Augustine body soul god Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved! Saint Augustine taught lazy evil Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls. Saint Augustine soul heaven believe Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)! Saint Augustine chastity give-me giving The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy. Saint Augustine greatness arrogance healthy Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. Saint Augustine work-out ambition children I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. Saint Augustine philosophical lord god The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. Saint Augustine dust house blood Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. Saint Augustine blessedness accomplishment desire I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them. Saint Augustine pieces unhappy soul Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant? Saint Augustine ignorant forget remember No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed. Saint Augustine believe firsts Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts. Saint Augustine rewards results heaven Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin. Saint Augustine devil poison sweet
