St Augustine of Hippo

You were with me, and I was not with you. The lovely things kept me far from you, though if they did not have their existence in you, they had no existence at all.

The lost life of those who die becomes the death of those still living.

We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, he always gives us what we need for our salvation

Even at that age I already believed in you, and so did my mother and the whole of my household except for my father. But, in my heart, he did not gain the better of my mother's piety and prevent me from believing in Chri…

O Lord ... Grant us in all our duties Your help, in all our perplexities Your guidance, in all our dangers Your protection, and in all our sorrows Your peace.

Radost koju daje svijet isprazna je. Ocekujemo je s velikom 'eljom, no kada dode, ne zadr'avamo je. Tuga onoga tko trpi nepravdu bolja je od radosti onoga koji cini bezakonje.

Inter faeces et urinam nascimur.

Most hidden, yet most present.

Late have I loved Thee, 0 Beauty so ancient and so new; late have I loved Thee! For behold Thou were within me, and I outside; and I sought Thee outside and in my unloveliness fell upon those lovely things that Thou hast…

Therefore the good man is free even if he is a slave, whereas the bad man is a slave even if he reigns?: A slave, not to one man, but, what is worse, to as many masters as he has vices?

Your good spirit moved over the waters. But he was not upheld by them as though he rested upon them, for when he is said to rest upon a man, it is he who gives that man rest in himself. It was your incorruptible and immu…

Let him love to find You while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find You.

God has one Son without sin, but none without affliction.

Ah, God, my God, what wretchedness I suffered in that world, and how I trifled with!-St. Augustine on school

O Lord, to be turned from You is to fall,to turn to You is to rise,and to stand in Your presence is to live forever.

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance is called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

Sing with your voices, your hearts, your lips and your lives: Sing to the Lord a new song.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek Him the greatest adventure; to find Him, the greatest human achievement.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but - what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the me…

Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you!

He was not utterly unskilled in handling his own lack of training, and he refused to be rashly drawn into a controversy about those matters from which there would be no exit nor easy way of retreat. This was an additiona…

I know well enough what it is, provided that nobody asks me; but if I am asked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

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.

Fecisti nos ad te, et inquietumest cor nostrum donecresquiescatin Te.(You have made us for you, and our heart is in turmoil until it finds its rest in you)

Our hearts were made for You, O Lord, and they are restless until they rest in you. -St. Augustine of Hippo

When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment

Every disordered soul is its own punishment.

Desiderium sinus cordis

Further, all men are to be loved equally. But since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special regard to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you.…

Anyone who does not love Him Who made man has not learned to love man aright.

I heard Your voice from on high. I am the food of the fully grown. Grow and you will feed on me. And you will not change Me into you, like the food of flesh eats. But you will be changed into Me.

An unjust law is no law at all.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance ' You oh God 'towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with externa…

Love and say it with your life.

You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.

I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own…

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me,…

Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek…

Why, then, do I set before You an ordered account of so many things? it's certainly not through me that You know them. But I'm stirring up love for You in myself and in those who read this so that we may all say, great i…

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

Nondum amabam, et amare amabam

Ignorance and stupidity are given the names of simplicity and innocence... Idleness appears as desire for a quiet life.

Theft is punished by Your law, O Lord, and by the law written in men's hearts, which iniquity itself cannot blot out. For what thief will suffer a thief? Even a rich thief will not suffer him who is driven to it by want.…

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will.(Against Fortunatus)

Do they desire to join me in thanksgiving when they hear how, by your gift, I have come close to you, and do they pray for me when they hear how I am held back by my own weight? ...A brotherly mind will love in me what y…

A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.