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."

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

— Saint Augustine

God

All Quotes by Saint Augustine

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

— Saint Augustine

Patience

“He that is jealous is not in love.”

— Saint Augustine

Jealousy

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

— Saint Augustine

Funny

“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

“Love is the beauty of the soul.”

— Saint Augustine

Beauty

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

— 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

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

— Saint Augustine

God

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

— Saint Augustine

Men

“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.”

— Saint Augustine

Men

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

— Saint Augustine

Art

“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

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

— Saint Augustine

Faith

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

— Saint Augustine

God

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

— Saint Augustine

God

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

— Saint Augustine

Good

“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?”

— Saint Augustine

Government

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”

— Saint Augustine

Travel

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

— Saint Augustine

Happiness

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

— Saint Augustine

Nature