Top 500 Saint Augustine Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.”

— Saint Augustine

102. “Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.”

— Saint Augustine

103. “He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.”

— Saint Augustine

104. “Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.”

— Saint Augustine

105. “The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.”

— Saint Augustine

106. “God is best known in not knowing him.”

— Saint Augustine

107. “Don’t hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.”

— Saint Augustine

108. “Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.”

— Saint Augustine

109. “Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.”

— Saint Augustine

110. “What do I love when I love my God?”

— Saint Augustine

111. “Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.”

— Saint Augustine

112. “Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.”

— Saint Augustine

113. “Doubt is but another element of faith.”

— Saint Augustine

114. “Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.”

— Saint Augustine

115. “God’s faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.”

— Saint Augustine

116. “You say to me ‘Show me your God.’ I answer you, ‘Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.’”

— Saint Augustine

117. “I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.”

— Saint Augustine

118. “God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.”

— Saint Augustine

119. “Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.”

— Saint Augustine

120. “The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse- the slave of as many masters as he has vices.”

— Saint Augustine

121. “Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.”

— Saint Augustine

122. “Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.”

— Saint Augustine

123. “If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.”

— Saint Augustine

124. “It is a sin to judge any man by his post.”

— Saint Augustine

125. “Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.”

— Saint Augustine

126. “If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.”

— Saint Augustine

127. “Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”

— Saint Augustine

128. “Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.”

— Saint Augustine

129. “Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.”

— Saint Augustine

130. “How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.”

— Saint Augustine

131. “Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.”

— Saint Augustine

132. “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

133. “The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.”

— Saint Augustine

134. “The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”

— Saint Augustine

135. “O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.”

— Saint Augustine

136. “If you understood him, it would not be God.”

— Saint Augustine

137. “You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.”

— Saint Augustine

138. “He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.”

— Saint Augustine

139. “Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.”

— Saint Augustine

140. “Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.”

— Saint Augustine

141. “Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.”

— Saint Augustine

142. “A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot.”

— Saint Augustine

143. “Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.”

— Saint Augustine

144. “There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.”

— Saint Augustine

145. “Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you.”

— Saint Augustine

146. “He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.”

— Saint Augustine

147. “People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.”

— Saint Augustine

148. “Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves.”

— Saint Augustine

149. “He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.”

— Saint Augustine

150. “Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.”

— Saint Augustine