“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.”
Beauty
“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.”
GodAll Quotes by Saint Augustine
“O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.”
Funny“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
Travel“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
Happiness“God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.”
God“My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.”
Experience“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
God“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?”
Government“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
Patience“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.”
Time“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”
Good“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
Beauty“He that is jealous is not in love.”
Jealousy“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.”
God“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”
Art“Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.”
Great“It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.”
Men“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
Faith“Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.”
Great“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
Nature