Top 500 Saint Augustine Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Whoever possesses God is happy.”

— Saint Augustine

302. “For in our hope we are saved.”

— Saint Augustine

303. “Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.”

— Saint Augustine

304. “He who labours, prays.”

— Saint Augustine

305. “In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.”

— Saint Augustine

306. “Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?”

— Saint Augustine

307. “There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.”

— Saint Augustine

308. “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

309. “A marriage without children is the world without the sun.”

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

315. “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

316. “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

317. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

319. “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

320. “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

321. “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

322. “His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God’s knowledge has no change or variation.”

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

324. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

326. “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

327. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

329. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

331. “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

332. “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

333. “Singing is a lover’s thing.”

— Saint Augustine

334. “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

335. “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

336. “Grace alone brings about every good work in us.”

— Saint Augustine

337. “Beware of bad Catholics.”

— Saint Augustine

338. “Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?”

— Saint Augustine

339. “Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.”

— Saint Augustine

340. “None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.”

— Saint Augustine

341. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

343. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

345. “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

346. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

348. “Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.”

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine