Top 500 Saint Augustine Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.”

— Saint Augustine

302. “The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.”

— Saint Augustine

303. “Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.”

— Saint Augustine

304. “Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.”

— Saint Augustine

305. “Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.”

— Saint Augustine

306. “What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.”

— Saint Augustine

307. “If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.”

— Saint Augustine

308. “It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.”

— Saint Augustine

309. “Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.”

— Saint Augustine

310. “Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, ‘Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.’”

— Saint Augustine

311. “All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.”

— Saint Augustine

312. “Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.”

— Saint Augustine

313. “Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.”

— Saint Augustine

314. “Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.”

— Saint Augustine

315. “We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.”

— Saint Augustine

316. “It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.”

— Saint Augustine

317. “He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.”

— Saint Augustine

318. “The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.”

— Saint Augustine

319. “No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.”

— Saint Augustine

320. “Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.”

— Saint Augustine

321. “Interior intimo meo et superior summo meo.”

— Saint Augustine

322. “We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.”

— Saint Augustine

323. “It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.”

— Saint Augustine

324. “Though defensive violence will always be ‘a sad necessity’ in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.”

— Saint Augustine

325. “Beware of bad Catholics.”

— Saint Augustine

326. “The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.”

— Saint Augustine

327. “There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.”

— Saint Augustine

328. “Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.”

— Saint Augustine

329. “Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.”

— Saint Augustine

330. “Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.”

— Saint Augustine

331. “Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.”

— Saint Augustine

332. “The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.”

— Saint Augustine

333. “You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.”

— Saint Augustine

334. “A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.”

— Saint Augustine

335. “To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.”

— Saint Augustine

336. “God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless.”

— Saint Augustine

337. “Love has reasons that reason knows not.”

— Saint Augustine

338. “The weakness of little children’s limbs is innocent, not their souls .”

— Saint Augustine

339. “If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.”

— Saint Augustine

340. “God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.”

— Saint Augustine

341. “There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior’s Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.”

— Saint Augustine

342. “Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.”

— Saint Augustine

343. “For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.”

— Saint Augustine

344. “Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.”

— Saint Augustine

345. “No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.”

— Saint Augustine

346. “The human race is inquisitive about other people’s lives, but negligent to correct their own.”

— Saint Augustine

347. “Eternity is the now that does not pass away.”

— Saint Augustine

348. “I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.”

— Saint Augustine

349. “What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don’t.”

— Saint Augustine

350. “Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.”

— Saint Augustine