Quote: O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. [ Avgustin]
Quote: 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. [ Avgustin]
Quote: No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. [ Avgustin]
Quote: I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. [ Avgustin]
Quote: The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. [ Avgustin]
Quote: I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me. [ Avgustin]
Quote: Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. [ Avgustin]
Quote: The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. [ Avgustin]
Quote: It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. [ Avgustin]
Quote: The greatest evil is physical pain. [ Avgustin]
Quote: Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. [ Avgustin]
Quote: Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. [ Avgustin]
Quote: By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. [ Avgustin]
Quote: Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. [ Avgustin]
Quote: 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. [ Avgustin]
Quote: I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. [ Avgustin]
Quote: He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. [ Avgustin]
Quote: I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him. [ Avgustin]
Quote: Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence. [ Avgustin]
Quote: Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. [ Avgustin]
Quote: Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. [ Avgustin]
Quote: What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. [ Avgustin]
Quote: If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times. [ Avgustin]
Quote: What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. [ Avgustin]
Quote: God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. [ Avgustin]