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Saint Augustine Quotes


Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

Saint Augustine
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Saint Augustine
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
Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Saint Augustine
Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Saint Augustine
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Saint Augustine
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Saint Augustine
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Saint Augustine
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
The greatest evil is physical pain.

Saint Augustine
The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Saint Augustine
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Saint Augustine
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Saint Augustine
There is no possible source of evil except good.

Saint Augustine
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

Saint Augustine
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Saint Augustine
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Saint Augustine
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Saint Augustine
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Saint Augustine