Tag: St. Augustine

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

Saint Augustine

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Saint Augustine

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.

Saint Augustine

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

Saint Augustine

You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

Saint Augustine

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

Saint Augustine

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

Saint Augustine