ST. AUGUSTINE QUOTES
Christian theologian (354-430)
You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Confessions
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.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Sermons
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Confessions
Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Sermons
The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Confessions
If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.
ST. AUGUSTINE
De Libero Arbitrio
What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and overspreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Confessions
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
ST. AUGUSTINE
attributed, 20,000 Quips and Quotes
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Confessions
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Confessions
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.
ST. AUGUSTINE
City of God
Anger is a weed; hate is the tree.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Sermons
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.
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
attributed, Michael Oren Fitzgerald's Christian Spirit
For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.
ST. AUGUSTINE
De doctina christiana
But just a minute, Mr. Poor Man; consider whether you can, in fact, enter. What if you're poor, and also happen to be greedy? What if you're sunk in destitution, and at the same time on fire with avarice? So if that's what you're like, whoever you are that are poor, it's not because you haven't wanted to be rich, but because you haven't been able to. So God doesn't inspect your means, but he observes your will.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Sermons
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Sermons
He who sings prays twice.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Sermons
Love the sinner and hate the sin.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Opera Omnia
The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.
ST. AUGUSTINE
The City of God
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.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Confessions