Augustine (354-430), Discipleship, Love, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Augustine (354-430), Page: Quotes, Prayer (problems), Quote Author, Quote Topic
Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Augustine (354-430), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Augustine (354-430), Confession, Humility, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
There is no sin or crime committed by another which I myself am not capable of committing through my weakness; and if I have not committed it, it is because God, in his mercy, has not allowed me to and has preserved me in good.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Augustine (354-430), Love (others), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
When we are harassed by poverty, saddened by bereavement, ill, or in pain, let good friends visit us. Let them be persons who not only can rejoice with those who rejoice but can weep with those who weep. Let them be persons who know how to give useful advice and how to win us to express our own feelings in conversation.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Augustine (354-430), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
