Patience is the companion of wisdom.
– Saint Augustine
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
– Saint Augustine
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay
first the foundation of humility.
– Saint Augustine
Pray not for a lighter load, but for stronger shoulders.
– Saint Augustine
Love is the beauty of the soul.
– Saint Augustine
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at
the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the
stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
– Saint Augustine
Love the sinner and hate the sin.
– Saint Augustine
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
– Saint Augustine
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is
needed by others.
– Saint Augustine
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
– Saint Augustine
Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.
– Saint Augustine
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul’s beauty.
– Saint Augustine
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on
the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain
one friend.
– Saint Augustine
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
– Saint Augustine
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
– Saint Augustine
Virtue and vice are not the same, even if they undergo the same torment.
– Saint Augustine
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find
him, the greatest human achievement.
– Saint Augustine
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
– Saint Augustine
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
– Saint Augustine
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
– Saint Augustine
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.
– Saint Augustine
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
– Saint Augustine
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
– Saint Augustine
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
– Saint Augustine
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.
– Saint Augustine
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the
long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the
stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
– Saint Augustine
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
– Saint Augustine
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey
the laws; trust in Providence.
– Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
– Saint Augustine
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
– Saint Augustine
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
– Saint Augustine
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
– Saint Augustine
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
– Saint Augustine
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
– Saint Augustine
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had
been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
– Saint Augustine
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.
– Saint Augustine
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
– Saint Augustine
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
– Saint Augustine
An unjust law is no law at all.
– Saint Augustine
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
– Saint Augustine
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
– Saint Augustine
Don’t you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
– Saint Augustine
Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
– Saint Augustine
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational
apprehension of things temporal.
– Saint Augustine
Hear the other side.
– Saint Augustine
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
– Saint Augustine
It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
– Saint Augustine
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.
– Saint Augustine
He who sings prays twice.
– Saint Augustine
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
He that is jealous is not in love.
– Saint Augustine
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.
– Saint Augustine
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
– Saint Augustine
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
– Saint Augustine
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
– Saint Augustine
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
– Saint Augustine
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never
read in either of them, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”
– Saint Augustine
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
– Saint Augustine