50+ St Augustine Quotes to Learn About Life, Love, and More

St Augustine Famous Quotes

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• “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 Quotes
  
• "… and even now we labor in our residual gloom, until in your only Son we become your righteousness; for that righteousness is like God's high and holy mountains, while your judgments, which were all the being we then had, are like the deep." - Saint Augustine Quotes
  
• “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, “Who can this be? Even the wind and the waves obey him.”” - Saint Augustine Quotes
  
• "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 Quotes
  
• "Always add, always walk, always proceed; neither stand still, nor go back, nor deviate; he that standeth still proceedeth not; he goeth back that continueth not; he deviateth that revolteth; he goeth better that creepeth in his way than he that moveth out of his way." - Saint Augustine Quotes
  
• "A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing."
  
• “Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which after the first or second blow may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.” - Saint Augustine Quotes
  
• "A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot." - Saint Augustine Quotes
  
• "Anyone who does not love Him Who made man has not learned to love man aright." - Saint Augustine Quotes
  “Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.” - Saint Augustine Quotes
  
  

St Augustine Quotes On Love

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• “Love is the beauty of the soul.”- St Augustine Quotes Love
  
• “Already I had learned from thee that because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.” - St Augustine Quotes Love
  
• “What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.” - St Augustine Quotes Love
  
• “As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.” - St Augustine Quotes Love
  
• “People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.” - St Augustine Quotes Love
  
• “Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.” - St Augustine Quotes Love
  
• “Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.” - St Augustine Quotes Love
  
• “What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."  - St Augustine Quotes Love
  
• “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” - St Augustine Quotes Love
• “Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”- St Augustine Quotes Love
  

St Augustine Quotes On Faith

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• "The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder." - St Augustine Quotes
  
• "Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times." - St Augustine Quotes
  
• "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you." - St Augustine Quotes
  
• "Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son." - St Augustine Quotes
  
• "Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you." - St Augustine Quotes
  
• "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." - St Augustine Quotes
  
• "Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness." - St Augustine Quotes
  
• "Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues: hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance." - St Augustine Quotes
  
• "The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave." - St Augustine Quotes
  
• "Anger is a weed; hate is the tree." - St Augustine Quotes
  
• "He who sings prays twice." - St Augustine Quotes
  
  

St Augustine Quotes On Human Nature

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• "Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt." - St Augustine Quotes
  
• “Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.” - St Augustine Quotes
  
• "The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences" - St Augustine Quotes
  
• “Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.” - St Augustine Quotes
  
• "He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king." - St Augustine Quotes
  
• "Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again." - St Augustine Quotes
  
• "A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently." - St Augustine Quotes
  
• "What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like." - St Augustine Quotes
  
• "Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible." - St Augustine Quotes