St. Augustine Quotes

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within

The greatest evil is physical pain.

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

Anger is a weed; hate is a tree

We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

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

Attract them by the way you live.

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

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

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

We should never use the truth to wound.

Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.

Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

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.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

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

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

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

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

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.

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

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.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

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

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.

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.

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.

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