Quotes By Saint Augustine

Date of Birth: November 13, 354         Date of Death: August 28, 430

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


Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.  ~ Saint Augustine


The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.  ~ Saint Augustine


There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.  ~ Saint Augustine


Patience is the companion of wisdom.  ~ Saint Augustine


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


Love is ever new because it never groweth old.  ~ Saint Augustine


Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.  ~ Saint Augustine


God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.  ~ Saint Augustine


We speak, but it is God who teaches.  ~ Saint Augustine


God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.  ~ Saint Augustine


Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, "It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you.  ~ Saint Augustine


To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.  ~ Saint Augustine


Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.  ~ Saint Augustine


Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.  ~ Saint Augustine


Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an Angel.  ~ Saint Augustine


If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.  ~ Saint Augustine


In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.  ~ Saint Augustine


Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.  ~ Saint Augustine


Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.  ~ Saint Augustine


If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.  ~ Saint Augustine


Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.  ~ Saint Augustine


In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.  ~ Saint Augustine


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


Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.  ~ Saint Augustine


Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you.  ~ Saint Augustine


Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.  ~ Saint Augustine


Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.  ~ Saint Augustine