Saint Augustine Quotes (22 quotations)
1. Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. - Saint Augustine
2. Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. - Saint Augustine
3. Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. - Saint Augustine
4. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. - Saint Augustine
5. Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. - Saint Augustine
6. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine
7. God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. - Saint Augustine
8. Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. - Saint Augustine
9. In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? - Saint Augustine
10. Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. - Saint Augustine
11. Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. - Saint Augustine
12. O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. - Saint Augustine
13. Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. - Saint Augustine
14. Patience is the companion of wisdom. - Saint Augustine
15. People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. - Saint Augustine
16. Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. - Saint Augustine
17. The purpose of all wars, is peace. - Saint Augustine
18. The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. - Saint Augustine
19. The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. - Saint Augustine
20. This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. - Saint Augustine
21. We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. - Saint Augustine
22. What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. - Saint Augustine
2. Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. - Saint Augustine
3. Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. - Saint Augustine
4. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. - Saint Augustine
5. Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. - Saint Augustine
6. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine
7. God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. - Saint Augustine
8. Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. - Saint Augustine
9. In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? - Saint Augustine
10. Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. - Saint Augustine
11. Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. - Saint Augustine
12. O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. - Saint Augustine
13. Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. - Saint Augustine
14. Patience is the companion of wisdom. - Saint Augustine
15. People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. - Saint Augustine
16. Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. - Saint Augustine
17. The purpose of all wars, is peace. - Saint Augustine
18. The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. - Saint Augustine
19. The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. - Saint Augustine
20. This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. - Saint Augustine
21. We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. - Saint Augustine
22. What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. - Saint Augustine
