Top 500 Saint Augustine Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.”

— Saint Augustine

152. “If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, “It is enough,” you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.”

— Saint Augustine

153. “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

154. “Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.”

— Saint Augustine

155. “The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.”

— Saint Augustine

156. “The purpose of all wars, is peace.”

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

159. “All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.”

— Saint Augustine

160. “You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.”

— Saint Augustine

161. “The Devil invented gambling.”

— Saint Augustine

162. “He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.”

— Saint Augustine

163. “Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.”

— Saint Augustine

164. “Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.”

— Saint Augustine

165. “As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.”

— Saint Augustine

166. “Attract them by the way you live.”

— Saint Augustine

167. “Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.”

— Saint Augustine

168. “For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.”

— Saint Augustine

169. “Beauty is the brilliance of truth.”

— Saint Augustine

170. “Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.”

— Saint Augustine

171. “If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.”

— Saint Augustine

172. “The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.”

— Saint Augustine

173. “We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.”

— Saint Augustine

174. “One loving heart sets another on fire.”

— Saint Augustine

175. “In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.”

— Saint Augustine

176. “Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.”

— Saint Augustine

177. “We must understand then, that even though God doesn’t always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.”

— Saint Augustine

178. “Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.”

— Saint Augustine

179. “Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.”

— Saint Augustine

180. “Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.”

— Saint Augustine

181. “Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.”

— Saint Augustine

182. “I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.”

— Saint Augustine

183. “We come to God by love and not by navigation.”

— Saint Augustine

184. “Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.”

— Saint Augustine

185. “We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.”

— Saint Augustine

186. “Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself.”

— Saint Augustine

187. “When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.”

— Saint Augustine

188. “Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.”

— Saint Augustine

189. “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

190. “For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?”

— Saint Augustine

191. “He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.”

— Saint Augustine

192. “There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.”

— Saint Augustine

193. “Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.”

— Saint Augustine

194. “He that is jealous is not in love.”

— Saint Augustine

195. “Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.”

— Saint Augustine

196. “Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .”

— Saint Augustine

197. “The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.”

— Saint Augustine

198. “For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.”

— Saint Augustine

199. “God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.”

— Saint Augustine

200. “He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father.”

— Saint Augustine