Saint Augustine Quotes (91 Quotes)


    Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.



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

    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.





    We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.


    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.


    There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

    Order your soul reduce your wants live in charity associate in Christian community obey the laws trust in Providence.

    Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

    Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

    If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

    The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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

    By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.



    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.

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

    We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

    My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

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

    No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.


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



    Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

    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.


    A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

    I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself.

    The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.



    Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

    He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

    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.

    If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

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


    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 found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

    To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.


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