Quotes
Quotes - Augustine
When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday.
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light,--although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
The mind commands the body and the body obeys. The mind commands itself and finds resistance.
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea , at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
From many to make one. [Lat., Ex pluribus unum facere.]
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars.... and they pass by themselves without wondering.
The world is a great big book, of which those who never travel read only one page.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. [Lat., Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.]
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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?
God is best known in not knowing him. [Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.]
God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Now he [Nebridius] lives in Abraham's bosom. [Lat., Nunc ille vivit in sinu Abraham.]
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive. [Lat., Curiosis fabricavit inferos.]
God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity he would be careless; and understanding of his adversity he would be senseless.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
