Saint Augustine Quotes | GloryQuotes

Saint Augustine Quotes About Love

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

Saint Augustine

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Saint Augustine

He that is jealous is not in love.

Saint Augustine

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Saint Augustine

Love, and do what you like.

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

Saint Augustine Quotes About Spiritual

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

Saint Augustine

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

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

Saint Augustine

More Quotes by Saint Augustine

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Saint Augustine

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Saint Augustine

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

Saint Augustine

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Saint Augustine

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Saint Augustine

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine

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

Saint Augustine

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

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Saint Augustine

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

Saint Augustine

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Saint Augustine

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Saint Augustine

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Saint Augustine

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Saint Augustine

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

Saint Augustine

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Saint Augustine

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Saint Augustine

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Saint Augustine

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Saint Augustine

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

Saint Augustine

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Saint Augustine

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Saint Augustine

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

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Saint Augustine

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

Saint Augustine

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Saint Augustine

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

Saint Augustine

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Saint Augustine

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Saint Augustine

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Saint Augustine

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Saint Augustine

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

Saint Augustine

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Saint Augustine

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

Saint Augustine

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Saint Augustine

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Saint Augustine

There is no possible source of evil except good.

Saint Augustine

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Saint Augustine

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Saint Augustine

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

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Saint Augustine

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Saint Augustine

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

Saint Augustine

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

Saint Augustine

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Saint Augustine

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

Saint Augustine

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Saint Augustine

To seek the highest good is to live well.

Saint Augustine

Browse 70 quotes attributed to Saint Augustine, listed in the source data as a Saint, organized around themes such as Love, Spiritual, Humility. Use the topic links to explore similar quotes, or browse the full author collection in one place.