Quotes By Saint Augustine

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.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.