Saint Augustine Quotes

"The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page."
-Saint Augustine

"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently."
-Saint Augustine in Truth quotes.

"Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations."
-Saint Augustine

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
-Saint Augustine in Faith quotes.

"Hear the other side. (Audi Partem Alteram)."
-Saint Augustine

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
-Saint Augustine in Work quotes.

"I was in love with loving."
-Saint Augustine

"Unless you believe, you will not understand."
-Saint Augustine in Belief quotes.

"If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing."
-Saint Augustine

"...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee."
-Saint Augustine

"You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones."
-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

"You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love."
-Saint Augustine

"O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet."
-Saint Augustine

"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."
-Saint Augustine

"This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection."
-Saint Augustine

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
-Saint Augustine

"Total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
-Saint Augustine

"To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal."
-Saint Augustine