Saint Augustine Quotes

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.

Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.

Things are solved by walking around.

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

Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

Believe that you may understand.

Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

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.

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.