Selected quotes · 24
№ 01
“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
Saint AugustineHappiness
№ 02
“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
Saint AugustineFaith
№ 03
“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
Saint AugustineFaith
№ 04
“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.”
Saint AugustineAction
№ 05
“The purpose of all wars, is peace.”
Saint AugustinePhilosophy
№ 06
“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
Saint AugustineFaith
№ 07
“Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.”
Saint AugustineGrowth
№ 08
“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”
Saint AugustineTime
№ 09
“Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.”
Saint AugustineFaith
№ 10
“God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.”
Saint AugustineCreativity
№ 11
“God is best known in not knowing him.”
Saint AugustineSuccess
№ 12
“If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.”
Saint AugustineLife
№ 13
“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.”
Saint AugustineGrowth
№ 14
“The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.”
Saint AugustineFaith
№ 15
“I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.”
Saint AugustineFriendship
№ 16
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
Saint AugustineFriendship
№ 17
“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
Saint AugustineNature
№ 18
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
Saint AugustineWisdom
№ 19
“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 AugustineLife
№ 20
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
Saint AugustineFaith
№ 21
“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
Saint AugustineFaith
№ 22
“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”
Saint AugustineTime
№ 23
“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
Saint AugustineAction
№ 24
“O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.”
Saint AugustineCreativity