In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Saint Augustine
I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered,'' I am not He, but He made me.''
Saint Augustine
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
Saint Augustine
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine
Understanding is the wages of faith.
Saint Augustine
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Saint Augustine
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.