Saint Augustine Quotes

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.

We should never use the truth to wound.

Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.

For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

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

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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.

If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.

What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

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

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

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.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

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

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.

Salvation is God's way of making us real people.

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

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.

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

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

Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

Put no faith in salvation through the political order.

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.

Love is ever new because it never groweth old.

To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.

God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .

For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.

He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.