Saint Augustine Quotes
I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.
When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.
Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.
You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.
Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.
A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.
Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.
The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.
A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.
The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.
Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.
The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.
To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
