Saint Augustine Quotes

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."

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

"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."

"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

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

"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."

"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."

"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

"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."

"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

"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."

"He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent."

"It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all."

"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"

"In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty."

"Love is the beauty of the soul."

"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."

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

"Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet."

"God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering."

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

"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."

"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 labor and are heavy laden."

"Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you."

"Punishment is justice for the unjust."

"Hear the other side."

"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."