Top 100 Quotes About Saint Augustine
#2. Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
Saint Augustine
#3. Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
Saint Augustine
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
Saint Augustine
#7. Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.
Saint Augustine
#8. What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.
Saint Augustine
#9. Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
Saint Augustine
#10. This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.
Saint Augustine
#12. 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
#13. Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.
Saint Augustine
#14. I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
Saint Augustine
#15. 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
#16. By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
Saint Augustine
#18. 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
#19. 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
#22. It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.
Saint Augustine
#23. When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
Saint Augustine
#24. 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
#25. Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.
Saint Augustine
#26. We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Saint Augustine
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
Saint Augustine
#30. Our life is a gymnasium of desire ... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."
Saint Augustine
#31. 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
#33. What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.
Saint Augustine
#34. The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
Saint Augustine
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.
Saint Augustine
#38. Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
Saint Augustine
#39. A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.
Saint Augustine
#40. A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.
Saint Augustine
#44. 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
#45. No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.
Saint Augustine
#46. If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
Saint Augustine
#47. Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.
Saint Augustine
#48. The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
Saint Augustine
#49. He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.
Saint Augustine
#50. No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.
Saint Augustine
#51. 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
#52. Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
Saint Augustine
#53. When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.
Saint Augustine
#55. If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.
Saint Augustine
#56. I am convinced that in all history there has never been a greater need to Pray for our Pastors than exists right now! Pastors are experiencing an unprecedented wave of attacks, stresses, challenges. obstacles. pressures.
Saint Augustine
#57. If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
Saint Augustine
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
Saint Augustine
#62. 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
#63. God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless
Saint Augustine
#65. God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
Saint Augustine
#66. 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
#67. Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.
Saint Augustine
#69. Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.
Saint Augustine
#70. If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and
shut out pardon.
Saint Augustine
#71. 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
#73. Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.
Saint Augustine
#74. Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
Saint Augustine
#75. If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Saint Augustine
#77. A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words
Saint Augustine
#78. Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.
Saint Augustine
#80. Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.
Saint Augustine
#81. The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word
Saint Augustine
#83. He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.
Saint Augustine
#84. Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.
Saint Augustine
#85. If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.
Saint Augustine
#87. The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.
Saint Augustine
#89. God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!
Saint Augustine
#91. When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied:
The same as you do when you infest the whole world;
but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber,
and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.
Saint Augustine
#93. In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.
Saint Augustine
#94. He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.
Saint Augustine
#95. He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Saint Augustine
#96. Christians have inherited from Saint Augustine and from Plato the vision of this transient world as an icon of another and changeless order. They understand the sacred as a revelation in the here and now of the eternal sense of our being.
Roger Scruton
#97. Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.
Saint Augustine
#98. Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.
Saint Augustine
#99. Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.
Saint Augustine
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