Saint Augustine Quotes
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.
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.
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.
Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you.
When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
