Saint Augustine Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes

Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Fall Quotes , Worry 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Faith Quotes

Believe that you may understand.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Believe Quotes , May Quotes

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Happy Quotes

The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him, though otherwise than as they shall reign hereafter; and yet, though the tares grow in the Church along with the wheat, they do not reign with Him. For they reign with Him who do what the apostle says, 'If you are risen with Christ, mind the things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. Seek those things which are above, not the things which are on the earth'.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Christian Quotes , Hands Quotes

Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Men Quotes , Cities Quotes

To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Heart Quotes , Men Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Faith Quotes , Believe Quotes

True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Thinking Quotes , True Joy 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Life Quotes , Beauty Quotes

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Adversity Quotes

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Kindness Quotes

We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Giving Quotes , Interpretation Quotes

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Christian Quotes , Believe Quotes

O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Prayer Quotes , May Quotes

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Real Quotes , Accomplishment Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Want Quotes , Easy Quotes

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Pride Quotes , Proud Quotes

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Rome Quotes , Cities Quotes