Quotes By 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.

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.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

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

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.

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

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.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

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.

Hear the other side.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

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

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

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

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