Augustine Of Hippo Quotes

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

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

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

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

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

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

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

Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

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

There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.

A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an Angel.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

If you understood him, it would not be God.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

What do I love when I love my God?

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

For in our hope we are saved.

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own

When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity.

Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.

There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power.

What should you, O man, do, you who seek your own glory whenever you do anything good, while when you do something bad, you figure out ways to blame God.

I was still unteachable, being inflated with the novelty of heresy.

This disease of curiosity.

This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.

Lavish spending cloaks the dark side of generosity

This, then, is true liberty: the joy that comes in doing what is right. At the same time, it is also devoted service in obedience to righteous precept.

A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart. Nay, even idolatry is ample evidence of this fact.

For it is one thing to see the Land of Peace from a wooded ridge, and yet another to walk the road that leads to it.

That vague and wandering opinion of Deity is declared by an apostle to be ignorance of God: