Top 500 Saint Augustine Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

353. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

355. “When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.”

— Saint Augustine

356. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

358. “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

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

— Saint Augustine

360. “Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man.”

— Saint Augustine

361. “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

362. “I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within.”

— Saint Augustine

363. “He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God’s will.”

— Saint Augustine

364. “He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.”

— Saint Augustine

365. “I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.”

— Saint Augustine

366. “Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man’s wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.”

— Saint Augustine

367. “In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.”

— Saint Augustine

368. “What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.”

— Saint Augustine

369. “It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.”

— Saint Augustine

370. “It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.”

— Saint Augustine

371. “The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.”

— Saint Augustine

372. “The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.”

— Saint Augustine

373. “Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.”

— Saint Augustine

374. “In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.”

— Saint Augustine

375. “For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?”

— Saint Augustine

376. “It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.”

— Saint Augustine

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377. “We should never use the truth to wound.”

— Saint Augustine

378. “Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord’s.”

— Saint Augustine

379. “Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?”

— Saint Augustine

380. “The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.”

— Saint Augustine

381. “The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.”

— Saint Augustine

382. “Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it’s height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.”

— Saint Augustine

383. “Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary.”

— Saint Augustine

384. “There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.”

— Saint Augustine

385. “You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.”

— Saint Augustine

386. “No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.”

— Saint Augustine

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387. “Unjust laws aren’t laws at all.”

— Saint Augustine

388. “We judge all things according to the divine truth.”

— Saint Augustine

389. “Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated?”

— Saint Augustine

390. “I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.”

— Saint Augustine

391. “The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.”

— Saint Augustine

392. “I was in love with loving.”

— Saint Augustine

393. “The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.”

— Saint Augustine

394. “There is no possible source of evil except good.”

— Saint Augustine

395. “Salvation is God’s way of making us real people.”

— Saint Augustine

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396. “Custom is second nature.”

— Saint Augustine

397. “Things are solved by walking around.”

— Saint Augustine

398. “Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.”

— Saint Augustine

399. “If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.”

— Saint Augustine

400. “For you have imposed order, and so it is that the punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.”

— Saint Augustine