Saint Augustine Quotes
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Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices ... sing also with your conduct.
— Saint Augustine
Custom is second nature.
— Saint Augustine
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
— Saint Augustine
The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.
— Saint Augustine
Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
— Saint Augustine
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.
— Saint Augustine
Your wisdom should be without pride.
— Saint Augustine
If the future and the past really exist, where are they?
— Saint Augustine
There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.
— Saint Augustine
Love and do as you will.
— Saint Augustine
Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.
— Saint Augustine
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.
— Saint Augustine
You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
— Saint Augustine
Beauty is the brilliance of truth.
— Saint Augustine
And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.
— Saint Augustine
God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
— Saint Augustine
In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.
— Saint Augustine
Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.
— Saint Augustine
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
— Saint Augustine
The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.
— Saint Augustine
Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?
— Saint Augustine
Love can be angry ... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.
— Saint Augustine
By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.
— Saint Augustine
The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
— Saint Augustine
There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither love nor hope without faith.
— Saint Augustine
You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'
— Saint Augustine
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
— Saint Augustine
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
— Saint Augustine
If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.
— Saint Augustine
Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.
— Saint Augustine
The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.
— Saint Augustine
Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
— Saint Augustine
24 THE MEASURE OF LOVE The measure of love is to love without measure. - attributed to Saint Augustine The
— Cassandra Clare
The diversity of language alienates man from man
— Saint Augustine
I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.
— Saint Augustine
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
— Saint Augustine
You are what you love.
— Saint Augustine
Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.
— Saint Augustine
Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
— Marguerite Young
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
— Saint Augustine
There is no salvation outside the church.
— Saint Augustine
I was in love with loving.
— Saint Augustine
Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.
— Saint Augustine
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
— Saint Augustine
I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul ... the Light Unchangeable.
— Saint Augustine
The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink
— Saint Augustine
No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility
— Saint Augustine
The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.
— Saint Augustine
Doubt is but another element of faith.
— Saint Augustine
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.
— Saint Augustine
Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.
— Saint Augustine
Whole prayer is nothing but love.
— Saint Augustine
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.
— Saint Augustine
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and
shut out pardon. — Saint Augustine
shut out pardon. — Saint Augustine
Anger is a weed; hate is a tree
— Saint Augustine
The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
— Saint Augustine
God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
— Saint Augustine
We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.
— Saint Augustine
God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
— Saint Augustine
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
— Saint Augustine
The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
— Saint Augustine
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
— Saint Augustine
Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.
— Saint Augustine
The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.
— Saint Augustine
Hell was made for the inquisitive.
— Saint Augustine
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
— Saint Augustine
If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
— Saint Augustine
Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.
— Saint Augustine
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
— Saint Augustine
One can't reach the Truth but trough Love.
— Saint Augustine
I believe in order to understand
— Saint Augustine
The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it?
— Saint Augustine
The one who sings, prays twice.
— Saint Augustine
Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.
— Saint Augustine
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
— Saint Augustine
It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
— Saint Augustine
When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
— Saint Augustine
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
— Saint Augustine
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
— Saint Augustine
Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?
— Saint Augustine
All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.
— Saint Augustine
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
— Saint Augustine
Without the Spirit we can neither love God nor keep His commandments.
— Saint Augustine
This world's a bubble.
— Saint Augustine
Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.
— Saint Augustine
Solvitur ambulando ... it is solved by walking.
— Saint Augustine
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.
— Saint Augustine
Beware of bad Catholics.
— Saint Augustine
The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.
— Saint Augustine
Poetry is devil's wine.
— Saint Augustine
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
— Saint Augustine
What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.
— Saint Augustine
Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.
— Saint Augustine