46 Quotes By Saint Augustine


What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
Saint Augustine on anger

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
Saint Augustine on art

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine on beauty

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 on beauty

Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine on beauty

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine on experience

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine on faith

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine on faith

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
Saint Augustine on fear

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Saint Augustine on forgiveness

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Saint Augustine on funny

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine on god

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Saint Augustine on god

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine on god

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine on god

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 on god

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine on god

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine on good

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 on good

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine on good