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Top 10 St. Augustine of Hippo Quotes (2025 Update)

St. Augustine of Hippo Quote: “I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn’t find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance – You oh God – towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter.”

1. “I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn’t find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance – You oh God – towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter.”

— St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo Quote: “Every disordered soul is its own punishment.”

2. “Every disordered soul is its own punishment.”

— St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo Quote: “And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, yet pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought.”

3. “And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, yet pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought.”

— St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo Quote: “Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of the Holy Scriptures, talking nonsense on these topics, and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn.”

4. “Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of the Holy Scriptures, talking nonsense on these topics, and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn.”

— St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo Quote: “Our hearts were made for You, O Lord, and they are restless until they rest in you.” -St. Augustine of Hippo.”

5. “Our hearts were made for You, O Lord, and they are restless until they rest in you.” -St. Augustine of Hippo.”

— St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo Quote: “For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next... They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more.”

6. “For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next... They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more.”

— St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo Quote: “The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but – what is worse – the slave of as many masters as he has vices.”

7. “The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but – what is worse – the slave of as many masters as he has vices.”

— St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo Quote: “Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you!”

8. “Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you!”

— St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo Quote: “He was not utterly unskilled in handling his own lack of training, and he refused to be rashly drawn into a controversy about those matters from which there would be no exit nor easy way of retreat. This was an additional ground for my pleasure. For the controlled modesty of a mind that admits limitations is more beautiful than the things I was anxious to know about.”

9. “He was not utterly unskilled in handling his own lack of training, and he refused to be rashly drawn into a controversy about those matters from which there would be no exit nor easy way of retreat. This was an additional ground for my pleasure. For the controlled modesty of a mind that admits limitations is more beautiful than the things I was anxious to know about.”

— St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo Quote: “Anyone who does not love Him Who made man has not learned to love man aright.”

10. “Anyone who does not love Him Who made man has not learned to love man aright.”

— St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo Quote: “Most hidden, yet most present.”

11. “Most hidden, yet most present.”

— St. Augustine of Hippo

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