“Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times; Such as we are, such are the times.” ― St Augustine
“What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.” ― St Augustine
“Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.” ― St Augustine
“By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.” ― St Augustine
“Remember, you will be faulted not because you are ignorant against your will, but because you neglect to seek out what makes you ignorant.” ― St Augustine
“Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.” ― St Augustine
“Unless you believe you will not understand.” ― St Augustine
“Love grows within you.” ― St Augustine
“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.” ― St Augustine
“God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.” ― St Augustine
“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” ― St Augustine
“Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.” ― St Augustine
“We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.” ― St Augustine
“The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed.” ― St Augustine
“Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.” ― St Augustine
“The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.” ― St Augustine
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” ― St Augustine
“Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.” ― St Augustine
“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.” ― St Augustine
“Every man, whatsoever his condition, desires to be happy.” ― St Augustine
“The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.” ― St Augustine
“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.” ― St Augustine
“The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.” ― St Augustine
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” ― St Augustine
“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.” ― St Augustine
