St. Augustine Quotes

Charity is the root of all good works.

The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14).

I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

God without us will not as we without God cannot.

Poetry is devil's wine.

The argument is at an end.

If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.

We will never move out of the present and into the future with all God has planned for us if we cling to dwell in the past.

God uses our conscience. He knows we can only start over when we are not condemning ourselves anymore.

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

What do I love when I love my God?

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

It costs a lot to build bad products

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

Beware of bad Catholics.

Your wisdom should be without pride.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

Understanding is the reward of faith.

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

Between urine and filth we are born.

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

Hell was made for the inquisitive.

Love and do as you will.

Christ was born of a woman without the man.

What can be hoped for which is not believed?

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

Make friends with angels.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by.

What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

A marriage without children is the world without the sun.

For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.