Popular Saint Augustine Quotes

Saint Augustine or Saint Austin is also known as Augustine of Hippo. He was an early Christian theologian as well as philosopher. His writing influenced the development of Western philosophy along with Western Christianity. Some of his famous quotes are listed below.

1. “Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” - St. Augustine
2. “Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” - St. Augustine
3. “This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.” - St. Augustine
4. “You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.” - St. Augustine
5. “Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.” - St. Augustine
6. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” - St. Augustine
7. “There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.” - St. Augustine
8. “It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.” - St. Augustine
9. “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” - St. Augustine
10. “Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.” - St. Augustine
11. “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” - St. Augustine
12. “Thou hast created us for thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.” - St. Augustine
13. “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.” - St. Augustine
14. “Don’t you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?” - St. Augustine
15. “The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.” - St. Augustine
16. “Love, and do what you like” - St. Augustine
17. “I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.” - St. Augustine
18. “Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.” - St. Augustine
19. “O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.” - St. Augustine
20. “Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.” - St. Augustine
21. “He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.” - St. Augustine
22. “The purpose of all wars…is peace.” - St. Augustine
23. “Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.” - St. Augustine
24. “We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain” - St. Augustine
25. “Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.” - St. Augustine
26. “He that is jealous is not in love.” - St. Augustine
27. “The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.” - St. Augustine
28. “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.” - St. Augustine
29. “Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.” - St. Augustine
30. “Hear the other side.” - St. Augustine
31. “God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.” - St. Augustine
32. “A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.” - St. Augustine
33. “We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.” - St. Augustine
34. “By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.” - St. Augustine
35. “I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered,” I am not He, but He made me.”” - St. Augustine
36. “Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.” - St. Augustine
37. “Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.” - St. Augustine
38. “Love is the beauty of the soul.” - St. Augustine
39. “The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.” - St. Augustine
40. “Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.” - St. Augustine
41. “Punishment is justice for the unjust.” - St. Augustine
42. “Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.” - St. Augustine
43. “Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.” - St. Augustine
44. “No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.” - St. Augustine
45. “He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.” - St. Augustine
46. “To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.” - St. Augustine
47. “Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.” - St. Augustine
48. “The greatest evil is physical pain.” - St. Augustine
49. “The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.” - St. Augustine
50. “To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.” - St. Augustine

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