Top 20 August Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.”

— Saint Augustine

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2. “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

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3. “Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

— Saint Augustine

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4. “But still, like air, I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Focus Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Quotes About Strength

5. “Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”

— Saint Augustine

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Virtue Quotes, Soul Quotes, Beauty Quotes

6. “Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.”

— Saint Augustine

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Soul Quotes, Love Is Quotes

7. “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

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Virtue Quotes, Humility Quotes

8. “You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.”

— Saint Augustine

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Determination Quotes

9. “Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.”

— Saint Augustine

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Adversity Quotes

10. “Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.”

— Saint Augustine

Also featured in: Spiritual Growth Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Book Quotes About Love

11. “I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”

— Augusten Burroughs

Also featured in: Sad Quotes About Life

12. “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

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Care Quotes, Love You Quotes, Quotes About Giving

13. “He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.”

— Saint Augustine

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Faith Quotes

14. “In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.”

— Saint Augustine

15. “Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.”

— Saint Augustine

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Care Quotes, Morality Quotes

16. “Love God, then do what you will.”

— Saint Augustine

Also featured in: Sunday Quotes, Book Quotes About Love

17. “Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.”

— Saint Augustine

Also featured in: Happy Sunday Quotes, Quotes About Heart

18. “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”

— Sylvia Plath

Also featured in: Rainy Day Quotes, Rain Quotes, Summer Quotes

19. “Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.”

— Saint Augustine

20. “The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.”

— Saint Augustine

21. “Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe.”

— Saint Augustine