Best Quotes by Saint Augustine (Top 10)

  1. Patience is the companion of wisdom.
  2. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
  6. I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
  7. Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.

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