Best Quotes by Saint Augustine (Top 10)
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
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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
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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
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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine
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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.
Saint Augustine
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
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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.
Saint Augustine
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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.
Saint Augustine
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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.
Saint Augustine
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Saint Augustine
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Saint Augustine
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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
Saint Augustine
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint Augustine
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God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine
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Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .
Saint Augustine
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He that is jealous is not in love.
Saint Augustine
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Saint Augustine
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Love and do as you will.
Saint Augustine
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Saint Augustine
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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
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine
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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
Saint Augustine
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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
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
Saint Augustine
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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine
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I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.
Saint Augustine
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Saint Augustine