Saint Augustine Quotes And Sayings

In Doing What We Ought We Deserve No Praise, Because It Is Our Duty.

He That Is Jealous Is Not In Love.

Will Is To Grace As The Horse Is To The Rider.

Since Love Grows Within You, So Beauty Grows. For Love Is The Beauty Of The Soul.

To Seek The Highest Good Is To Live Well.

Since You Cannot Do Good To All, You Are To Pay Special Attention To Those Who, By The Accidents Of Time, Or Place, Or Circumstances, Are Brought Into Closer Connection With You.

It Seems To Me That An Unjust Law Is No Law At All.

Don't You Believe That There Is In Man A Deep So Profound As To Be Hidden Even To Him In Whom It Is?

The Same Thing Which Is Now Called Christian Religion Existed Among The Ancients. They Have Begun To Call 'Christian' The True Religion Which Existed Before.

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.

If I Am Given A Formula, And I Am Ignorant Of Its Meaning, It Cannot Teach Me Anything, But If I Already Know It What Does The Formula Teach Me?

This Is The Very Perfection Of A Man, To Find Out His Own Imperfections.

Habit, If Not Resisted, Soon Becomes Necessity.

Grant What Thou Commandest And Then Command What Thou Wilt.

Thou Must Be Emptied Of That Wherewith Thou Art Full, That Thou Mayest Be Filled With That Whereof Thou Art Empty.

If We Live Good Lives, The Times Are Also Good. As We Are, Such Are The Times.

This World's A Bubble.

If Two Friends Ask You To Judge A Dispute, Don't Accept, Because You Will Lose One Friend; On The Other Hand, If Two Strangers Come With The Same Request, Accept Because You Will Gain One Friend.

God Is Best Known In Not Knowing Him.

He Fashioned Hell For The Inquisitive.

Blessedness Consists In The Accomplishment Of Our Desires, And In Our Having Only Regular Desires.

Hear The Other Side.

God Had One Son On Earth Without Sin, But Never One Without Suffering.

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.

Charity Is No Substitute For Justice Withheld.

There Is No Possible Source Of Evil Except Good.

The Honors Of This World, What Are They But Puff, And Emptiness, And Peril Of Falling?

The Soul, Which Is Spirit, Can Not Dwell In Dust; It Is Carried Along To Dwell In The Blood.

Punishment Is Justice For The Unjust.

Repentant Tears Wash Out The Stain Of Guilt.

He Who Created Us Without Our Help Will Not Save Us Without Our Consent.

We Make Ourselves A Ladder Out Of Our Vices If We Trample The Vices Themselves Underfoot.

Custom Is Second Nature.

I Found Thee Not, O Lord, Without, Because I Erred In Seeking Thee Without That Wert Within.

He Who Labours, Prays.

The Verdict Of The World Is Conclusive.

If We Did Not Have Rational Souls, We Would Not Be Able To Believe.

Oh Lord, Give Me Chastity, But Do Not Give It Yet.

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.