To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. Saint Augustine More Quotes by Saint Augustine More Quotes From Saint Augustine In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love. Saint Augustine characterorderpeople God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them. Saint Augustine anxiousblessing Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves. Saint Augustine Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives. Saint Augustine changesonglife Love and say it with your life. Saint Augustine The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity. Saint Augustine meritgainspurpose The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience. Saint Augustine disobedienceobediencecost Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct. Saint Augustine tonguevoicegiving He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. Saint Augustine philosophicalcatholicfaith Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage. Saint Augustine daughterhopetwo Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not. Saint Augustine christian-inspirationalgods-willchristian The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home. Saint Augustine christianhomebible You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation. Saint Augustine designhumilitythinking A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline. Saint Augustine disciplinecuriosity When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness. Saint Augustine weakness Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail. Saint Augustine voiceheartlove-is God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. Saint Augustine philosophicaladversityson The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world. Saint Augustine evilskymen God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable. Saint Augustine asksgrants If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal. Saint Augustine coachinggoalmoving
