Top 500 Saint Augustine Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “God gives where he finds empty hands.”

— 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’s love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!”

— Saint Augustine

55. “Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.”

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

59. “The greatest evil is physical pain.”

— 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. “Punishment is justice for the unjust.”

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

65. “Tolle, lege: take up and read.”

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

68. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

70. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

77. “Love and say it with your life.”

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

79. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

86. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

89. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— 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. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

97. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

99. “To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.”

— Saint Augustine

100. “Whole prayer is nothing but love.”

— Saint Augustine