Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine

29 quotes

Recognized as a Christian theologian and philosopher, Saint Augustine offered the world both action and articulate reflection. With equal ease, Saint Augustine moved between God and Love, finding connections others missed. Discover 46 of Saint Augustine's most memorable quotes, ranging across God, Love, Great, Men, and Good. One standout: "God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

“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

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“Love is the beauty of the soul.”

— Saint Augustine

Beauty

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

— Saint Augustine

Patience

“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

Great

“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

“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

Great

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

— Saint Augustine

Happiness

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

— Saint Augustine

God

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

— Saint Augustine

Nature

“He that is jealous is not in love.”

— Saint Augustine

Jealousy

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

— Saint Augustine

Art

“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

Beauty

“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

Experience

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

— Saint Augustine

Good

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

— Saint Augustine

God

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

— Saint Augustine

Funny

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

— Saint Augustine

Faith

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

— Saint Augustine

Men

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

— Saint Augustine

God

“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”

— Saint Augustine

Time

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

— Saint Augustine

Faith