Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. Saint Augustine More Quotes by Saint Augustine More Quotes From Saint Augustine The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell. Saint Augustine educationinspirationallife When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace. Saint Augustine menwarpeace There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life. Saint Augustine passionpowerfulsleep The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices. Saint Augustine good-manwickedmen For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people. Saint Augustine savingorderpeople What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith. Saint Augustine graceheartpeople Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power. Saint Augustine fortitudesoulloss God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect. Saint Augustine religiouschristianinspirational We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist. Saint Augustine adoresinchrist Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. Saint Augustine humilitywishclouds God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him. Saint Augustine reverencegreaterifs Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things. Saint Augustine fightingsufferingtemptation Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it. Saint Augustine silencereflectionlooks Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour. Saint Augustine duesreputationtwo If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. Saint Augustine learningchangeleadership Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. Saint Augustine remissionforgivenesssin There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill. Saint Augustine vacuumsmenchrist Hell was made for the inquisitive. Saint Augustine inquisitivehellmade Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves. Saint Augustine virtuesinends It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam. Saint Augustine raceearthopposites
