Top 500 Saint Augustine Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.”

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

203. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

205. “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

206. “The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.”

— Saint Augustine

207. “The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.”

— Saint Augustine

208. “Our rewards in heaven are a result of God’s crowning His own gifts.”

— Saint Augustine

209. “Without the Spirit we can neither love God nor keep His commandments.”

— Saint Augustine

210. “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”

— Saint Augustine

211. “Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul’s beauty.”

— Saint Augustine

212. “Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.”

— Saint Augustine

213. “I err therefore I am.”

— Saint Augustine

214. “A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words.”

— Saint Augustine

215. “I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.”

— Saint Augustine

216. “God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.”

— Saint Augustine

217. “When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other’s flame.”

— Saint Augustine

218. “I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.”

— Saint Augustine

219. “The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God’s word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God’s word.”

— Saint Augustine

220. “If you don’t believe it you won’t understand it.”

— Saint Augustine

221. “This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.”

— Saint Augustine

222. “They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.”

— Saint Augustine

223. “The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.”

— Saint Augustine

224. “We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.”

— Saint Augustine

225. “My weight is my love.”

— Saint Augustine

226. “Hell was made for the inquisitive.”

— Saint Augustine

227. “Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.”

— Saint Augustine

228. “My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.”

— Saint Augustine

229. “And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.”

— Saint Augustine

230. “Anger is a weed; hate is a tree.”

— Saint Augustine

231. “In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God’s face gives joy that never fails.”

— Saint Augustine

232. “The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.”

— Saint Augustine

233. “If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.”

— Saint Augustine

234. “It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.”

— Saint Augustine

235. “There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.”

— Saint Augustine

236. “I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.”

— Saint Augustine

237. “Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.”

— Saint Augustine

238. “In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?”

— Saint Augustine

239. “What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.”

— Saint Augustine

240. “I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!”

— Saint Augustine

241. “Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.”

— Saint Augustine

242. “Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself – the latter in God.”

— Saint Augustine

243. “Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: ‘This is My Body.’ No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.”

— Saint Augustine

244. “God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.”

— Saint Augustine

245. “Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.”

— Saint Augustine

246. “The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.”

— Saint Augustine

247. “We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.”

— Saint Augustine

248. “Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.”

— Saint Augustine

249. “Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”

— Saint Augustine

250. “What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!”

— Saint Augustine