Quotes By 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
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
Saint Augustine
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustine
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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
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
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
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
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
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