A biography for Saint Augustinehasn’t been written yet.
“Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.”
“If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?”
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
“He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.”
“I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.”
“He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.”
“The greatest evil is physical pain.”
“The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.”
“Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.”
“We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.”
“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
“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.”
“I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.”
“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.”
“There is no possible source of evil except good.”
“There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.”
“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?”
“The verdict of the world is conclusive.”
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
“This world's a bubble.”