There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other. Saint Augustine More Quotes by Saint Augustine More Quotes From Saint Augustine Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness. Saint Augustine healthylongbelieve Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained. Saint Augustine self-esteembelievelying And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments? Saint Augustine holygod-lovespirit If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men. Saint Augustine forgivingmentwo Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do. Saint Augustine prayingprayer Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities. Saint Augustine invisiblepowerfulreality If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. Saint Augustine two-friendsfriendshiphands That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become. Saint Augustine forgivenesshatelove Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth. Saint Augustine inspirationfaithmen Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul. Saint Augustine adversitysoulgrace For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply "today." Saint Augustine yesterdaymeanyears I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me. Saint Augustine homeschoolingeducationalinspirational Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. Saint Augustine philosophicalcatholicperfect All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross. Saint Augustine sufferingjesuschrist Attract them by the way you live. Saint Augustine way If you don't believe it you won't understand it. Saint Augustine beliefchristianbelieve It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. Saint Augustine moral-responsibilityunjustlaw He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. Saint Augustine philosophicalfreedomkings Love is ever new because it never groweth old. Saint Augustine love-islove Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation. Saint Augustine punishmentmedicinesuffering
