Saint Augustine Quotes

Make friends with angels.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by.

What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

A marriage without children is the world without the sun.

For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)

We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].

God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.

The reward of patience Is patience.

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .

Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.

Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.

There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.

No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.

You are what you love.

They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.