Saint Augustine Quotes

Faith is to believe what you do not see.. view

By: Saint Augustine

The greatest evil is physical pain... view

By: Saint Augustine

The desire is thy prayers.. view

By: Saint Augustine

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

By: Saint Augustine

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul... view

By: Saint Augustine

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

By: Saint Augustine

Punishment is justice for the unjust... view

By: Saint Augustine

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently... view

By: Saint Augustine

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need.. view

By: Saint Augustine

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page... view

By: Saint Augustine

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?.. view

By: Saint Augustine

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility... view

By: Saint Augustine

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation... view

By: Saint Augustine

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld... view

By: Saint Augustine

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider... view

By: Saint Augustine

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... view

By: Saint Augustine

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation... view

By: Saint Augustine

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart... view

By: Saint Augustine

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know... view

By: Saint Augustine

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me.. view

By: Saint Augustine

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... view

By: Saint Augustine

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot... view

By: Saint Augustine

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs... view

By: Saint Augustine

The purpose of all wars, is peace... view

By: Saint Augustine

To seek the highest good is to live well... view

By: Saint Augustine

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences... view

By: Saint Augustine

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it... view

By: Saint Augustine

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

By: Saint Augustine

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee... view

By: Saint Augustine

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections... view

By: Saint Augustine

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart... view

By: Saint Augustine

There is no possible source of evil except good... view

By: Saint Augustine

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet... view

By: Saint Augustine

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts.. view

By: Saint Augustine

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams... view

By: Saint Augustine

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr... view

By: Saint Augustine

It was pride that changed angels into devils.. view

By: Saint Augustine

Love is the beauty of the soul... view

By: Saint Augustine

Love, and do what you like... view

By: Saint Augustine

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering... view

By: Saint Augustine

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature... view

By: Saint Augustine

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God.. view

By: Saint Augustine