Top 500 Saint Augustine Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.”

— Saint Augustine

52. “Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.”

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

54. “God gives where he finds empty hands.”

— Saint Augustine

55. “God’s love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!”

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

57. “Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.”

— Saint Augustine

58. “In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.”

— Saint Augustine

59. “If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.”

— Saint Augustine

60. “Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul’s joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.”

— Saint Augustine

61. “The greatest evil is physical pain.”

— Saint Augustine

62. “The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.”

— Saint Augustine

63. “Tolle, lege: take up and read.”

— Saint Augustine

64. “Punishment is justice for the unjust.”

— Saint Augustine

65. “This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”

— Saint Augustine

66. “Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.”

— Saint Augustine

67. “To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.”

— Saint Augustine

68. “Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.”

— Saint Augustine

69. “Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.”

— Saint Augustine

70. “Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.”

— Saint Augustine

71. “What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.”

— Saint Augustine

72. “When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.”

— Saint Augustine

73. “In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.”

— Saint Augustine

74. “Don’t go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.”

— Saint Augustine

75. “Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.”

— Saint Augustine

76. “Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.”

— Saint Augustine

77. “Love and say it with your life.”

— Saint Augustine

78. “God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.”

— Saint Augustine

79. “God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”

— Saint Augustine

80. “It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.”

— Saint Augustine

81. “God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.”

— Saint Augustine

82. “Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.”

— Saint Augustine

83. “If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?”

— Saint Augustine

84. “The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.”

— Saint Augustine

85. “God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.”

— Saint Augustine

86. “Whole prayer is nothing but love.”

— Saint Augustine

87. “Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.”

— Saint Augustine

88. “There is no salvation outside the church.”

— Saint Augustine

89. “For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.”

— Saint Augustine

90. “We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.”

— Saint Augustine

91. “Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.”

— Saint Augustine

92. “Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.”

— Saint Augustine

93. “Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.”

— Saint Augustine

94. “God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.”

— Saint Augustine

95. “It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.”

— Saint Augustine

96. “Mary heard God’s word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God’s truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.”

— Saint Augustine

97. “Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.”

— Saint Augustine

98. “Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.”

— Saint Augustine

99. “Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.”

— Saint Augustine

100. “No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility.”

— Saint Augustine