Top 100 Augustine The Quotes
#1. In the time of to Augustine, the conversation in the West mostly had been a Christian reaction to outside ideas. After Augustine, the Great Conversation would be about his ideas for centuries.
John Mark Reynolds
#2. We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic thinking Greek world; that took us about 400 years. Then, finally a man named Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, recast Christianity in terms of neo-Platonic thought.
John Shelby Spong
#3. Just as truly as the Confessions are the autobiography of St. Augustine, The City of God is the autobiography of the Church written by the most Catholic of her great saints.
Augustine Of Hippo
#4. I see only one solution," said St. Augustine. "The penguins will go to hell." "But they have no soul," observed St. Irenaeus. "It is a pity"" sighed Tertullian.
Anatole France
#5. Here was St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States. How to build a hotel to meet the requirements of nineteenth century America and have it in keeping with the character of the place ? that was my hardest problem.
Henry Flagler
#6. 24 THE MEASURE OF LOVE The measure of love is to love without measure. - attributed to Saint Augustine The
Cassandra Clare
#7. People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#8. I could deal with hate and fear, but for the love of all that's right in the world, don't fake like me. Life was too short to waste energy faking anything.
Donna Augustine
#9. We visited the unlucky in the hospital and went to funerals, always remarking on the tragedy. But every time we stepped too close to it, we saw our own demises. We went with the full knowledge that we would one day die as well.
Donna Augustine
#10. He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.
Augustine Of Hippo
#11. Sex was the main component of her thoughts now. But love - and her desperate longing for it - had vanished from her heart like a migraine after a painkiller.
Augustine Sam
#12. Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
Saint Augustine
#13. For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.
Saint Augustine
#14. For the will cannot be forced into such iniquity by anything superior or equal to it, since that would be unjust; or by anything inferior to it, since that is impossible.
Augustine Of Hippo
#15. Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.
Saint Augustine
#16. It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
Saint Augustine
#17. Some Christians believe the harder that one thinks, the colder faith will grow. Augustine grew more brilliant as he grew more pious, more creative as he became more orthodox. His period of heresy was imitative, but his traditional Christianity took mental risks.
John Mark Reynolds
#18. The throne of wisdom is the soul of the righteous, that is, wisdom sits on the soul of the righteous as on her chair, as on her throne, and there judges whatever she judges.
Augustine Of Hippo
#19. It was like every man in my life knew exactly what I wanted them to do and then did the exact opposite, just to fuck with me. "I'm
Donna Augustine
#20. Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
Augustine Birrell
#21. Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Saint Augustine
#22. One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever.
Saint Augustine
#23. For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.
Katha Pollitt
#24. If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#25. The past times that you think were good, are good because they are not yours here and now.
Augustine Of Hippo
#26. And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul ... the Light Unchangeable ... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.
Saint Augustine
#27. All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.
Saint Augustine
#28. Now in my opinion it is certainly a complete mistake to suppose that no narrative of events in this type of literature has any significance beyond the purely historical record; but it is equally rash to maintain that every single statement in those books is a complex of allegorical meanings. That
Augustine Of Hippo
#30. Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
Augustine Of Hippo
#32. The happy life is this - to rejoice to thee, in thee, and for thee.
Augustine Of Hippo
#33. If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
Augustine Of Hippo
#36. The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.
Augustine Of Hippo
#37. Evidently there is difficulty, real difficulty, in learning a foreign language at all, as if it sprinkled all the sweet flavor of the Greek mythical stories with a foul taste.
Augustine Of Hippo
#38. 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
#40. Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#41. A thing is good and pleasant only because it is connected to Him. Use it apart from its Source, and it will come to taste bitter. Since the good thing is His, how can it remain worth loving if you forsake Him to get it?
Augustine Of Hippo
#42. Things take the time they take.
Don't worry.
How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?
Mary Oliver
#43. He [Augustine] admitted: 'I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress by writing.'
Paul Johnson
#44. I pretended my eyeballs had weights on them to stop myself from rolling them to the back of my head.
Donna Augustine
#45. No one will make a good end to the life into which he is born unless he is born again before he ends it.
Augustine Of Hippo
#46. For every man, however laudably he lives, yet yields in some points to the lust of the flesh.
Augustine Of Hippo
#47. We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Saint Augustine
#48. Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated?
Saint Augustine
#49. 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
#50. hell if I was going to be another person who stood by and watched another person get abused without helping. Some of the world's greatest atrocities could've been stopped if people hadn't just stood around watching.
Donna Augustine
#51. For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.
Augustine Of Hippo
#53. Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.
Saint Augustine
#55. Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#56. Let such a person rejoice even to ask the question, "What does this mean?" Yes, let him rejoice in that, and choose to find by not finding rather than by finding fail to find you.
Augustine Of Hippo
#57. The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
Saint Augustine
#58. Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.
Saint Augustine
#59. 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
#60. An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.
Augustine Birrell
#61. Time was also (as an infant) I knew no Latin; but this I learned without fear or suffering, by mere observation, amid the caresses of my nursery and jests of friends, smiling and sportively encouraging me.
Augustine Of Hippo
#62. Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
Saint Augustine
#63. it was almost sad how much stronger the bad times bonded you then the good, welded you together by the heat of brimstone.
Donna Augustine
#64. We, on the other hand, are most certainly here, in this house, eating this very tasty bacon. And as long as there's bacon, shit just ain't that bad.
Donna Augustine
#66. Their irreligious pride makes them withdraw from you and eclipse your great light from reaching themselves. They can foresee a future eclipse of the sun, but do not perceive their own eclipse in the present.
Augustine Of Hippo
#67. She was walking toward the house as happy and stupid as I'd ever seen her. She might as well be shitting rainbows from the look on her face.
Donna Augustine
#70. Law Number XLIV: Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a westerly direction, preferably supersonic, crossing time zones to provide the additional hours needed to fix the broken electronics.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#71. People go to admire lofty mountains, and huge breakers at sea, and crashing waterfalls, and vast stretches of ocean, and the dance of the stars, but they leave themselves behind out of sight.
Augustine Of Hippo
#72. Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?
Saint Augustine
#73. Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.
Matt Chandler
#74. That joy is to know You as You are. This is the happy life, to rejoice in You, of You, and for You. This is the happy life, and there is no other.
Augustine Of Hippo
#75. You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.
Augustine Of Hippo
#76. Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#77. The weakness then of infant limbs, not its will, is its innocence.
Augustine Of Hippo
#78. The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
Saint Augustine
#79. No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.
Saint Augustine
#80. Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
Augustine Of Hippo
#81. There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.
Saint Augustine
#82. Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love, and the future to God's providence.
Augustine Of Hippo
#83. When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.
Saint Augustine
#84. The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind all the struggling and striving. You can be set free as you journey forward into a balanced healthy and rewarding future.
Sue Augustine
#85. He who lives according to God ought to cherish towards evil men a perfect hatred, so that he shall neither hate the man because of his vice nor love the vice because of the man.
Augustine Of Hippo
#86. AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness ... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.
Saint Augustine
#87. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.
Saint Augustine
#88. Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.
Augustine Of Hippo
#89. This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
Saint Augustine
#90. All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.
Saint Augustine
#92. God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
Saint Augustine
#93. True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth ... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.
Saint Augustine
#94. took the slip from his hand and looked at the strangle symbols.
Donna Augustine
#95. What do you think you are doing by infesting the whole world? Because I do it with one puny boat, I am called a pirate; because you do it with a great fleet, you are called an emperor.
Augustine Of Hippo
#96. Thus the quarrel that arose between Remus and Romulus demonstrated the division of the earthly city against itself; while the conflict between Cain and Abel displayed the hostility between the two cities themselves, the City of God and the city of men. Thus
Augustine Of Hippo
#97. What kind of ethical philosophy is it that condemns every child, even before it is born, to inherit the sin of a remote ancestor? Augustine,
Richard Dawkins
#98. Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.
Saint Augustine
#99. The study of God requires intellectual effort, historical imagination, empathic energy, and participation in a vital community of prayer (Augustine, Answer to Skeptics).
Thomas C. Oden
#100. Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine
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