Quotes by Saint Augustine

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

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.

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.