Audi partem alteram
(Hear the other side)
– St Augustine

St Augustine might have been the one to start the fashion of writing autobiographies.  He began it in the latter part of the 4th century when he was in his forties.  The autobiography which he called Confessions was made up of 13 books.  It talked about his wanton life as a lustful young man.

St Augustine was born on 13 November 0354

• Habit, if not resisted soon, becomes necessity.
  —St. Augustine.

  I recently bought a copy of St Augustine’s Confession at our Church bric-a-brac sale.  Looking forward ot reading it.

• Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
  ~Saint Augustine
• For I was: I was alive: I could feel: I could guard my personality, the imprint of that mysterious unity from which my being was derived.
  – St Augustine
• ‘Grant me chastity and continence, only not yet.”
  – St Augustine
• GOD provides the wind but man must raise the sails.
  – St Augustine
• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
  ~St. Augustine
• He cannot have God as his father who refuses to have the Church for his mother.
  – St Augustine
• He that is not jealous is not in love.
  ~St. Augustine
• He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil  is a slave, though he be a king.
  – St Augustine
• ‘‘ He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.’’
  – St Augustine
• 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 labour and are heavy laden”.
  – St Augustine
• ‘‘ I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.’’
  – St Augustine
• Love is the beauty of the soul.
  – St Augustine
  ..
• Men go forth to wonder at the heights of mountains, the extent of the oceans, and the courses of the stars, and omit to wonder at themselves.
• Since love grows within us, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
  – St Augustine
• There is no possible source of evil except good.
  – St Augustine
• The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
  — St. Augustine.
• The day we are born is the day we begin to live
  in a dying body.
  – St. Augustine
• Total abstinence is easier to many than perfect moderation.
  – St Augustine
• To talk and laugh with mutual
  concessions, to read pleasant books;
  to jest and to be solemn,
  to dissent from each other without offense,
  to teach one another somewhat, or somewhat to learn – to expect those
  absent with impatience and
  embrace their return with joy.
  – Meaning of friendship,
  St Augustine
• Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to HIs love, and the future to His providence.
  ~ St Augustine
• You must not imagine that you are drawn against your will,
  for the mind can also be drawn by love. …
  Show me a love and he will understand what I am saying.
  Show me someone who wants something, someone hungry,
  someone wandering in his wilderness,
  thirsting and longing for the fountains of his eternal home,
  show me such a one and he will understand what I mean.
  – St Augustine of Hippo
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