Love the sinner and hate the sin.
God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the...
There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.
You are not blamed for your unwilling ignorance, but because you fail to ask about what you do not know.... For no one is prevented from leaving behind the disadvantage of ignorance and seeking the ad...
Augustine taught that true freedom is not choice or lack of constraint, but being what you are meant to be. Humans were created in the image of God. True freedom, then, is not found in moving away fro...
We speak, but it is God who teaches.
Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity.
I was still unteachable, being inflated with the novelty of heresy.
How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose..! You drove them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and too...
He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
Lavish spending cloaks the dark side of generosity
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?
There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet they leave th...
For it is one thing to see the Land of Peace from a wooded ridge, and yet another to walk the road that leads to it.
In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time came and went from one day to the next; in its coming and its passing it brought me othe...
The purpose of all war is peace.