Saint Augustine Quotes – Wisdom and Inspiration from the Church Father
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. – Saint Augustine
Patience is the companion of wisdom. – Saint Augustine
Our hearts are restless until they find rest in you, O Lord. – Saint Augustine
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. – Saint Augustine
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. – Saint Augustine
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. – Saint Augustine
Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. – Saint Augustine
God does not require us to succeed, He only requires that you try. – Saint Augustine
The measure of love is to love without measure. – Saint Augustine
Humility is the foundation of all virtues. – Saint Augustine
Miracles happen not in opposition to nature, but in opposition to what we know of nature. – Saint Augustine
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from his home reads only a page. – 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
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. – Saint Augustine
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
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose, it will defend itself. – Saint Augustine
The world is a great forest, and all those who wander in it are lost until they find the true path. – Saint Augustine
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. – 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
What is more wicked than to force a free people into slavery and hold them against their will? – Saint Augustine
To fall in love with God is the best romance; to seek him is the greatest adventure; to find him is the greatest human achievement. – Saint Augustine
Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature. – Saint Augustine
God wants us to delight in any promise that makes us trust Him, and He wants to test us with whatever makes us afraid. – Saint Augustine
God has no need to hear the prayers of those who cry to Him in act but do not cry to Him in heart. – Saint Augustine
He who does not have the Church as his mother, does not have God as his father. – Saint Augustine
Charity is the root of all good works. – Saint Augustine
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. – Saint Augustine
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him is the greatest adventure; to find him is the greatest human achievement. – Saint Augustine
Love the sinner and hate the sin. – 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. – Saint Augustine
The love of God is not acquired by purging our love of all other loves, but by simply directing our love to its proper object. – Saint Augustine
Love is the beauty of the soul. – Saint Augustine
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. – Saint Augustine
You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones. – Saint Augustine
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand, it is not God. – Saint Augustine
Remember that He does not cease to be a father just because His children forget to be children. – Saint Augustine
Good and bad men equally enjoy sunshine. – Saint Augustine
The Holy Scriptures are like fields with flowers, in which we find as much honey as we have spiritual judgment and longing. – Saint Augustine
By faithfulness, we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. – Saint Augustine
Our hearts are restless until they rest in you, O Lord. – Saint Augustine
Love is the thing that enables a person to endure. – Saint Augustine
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. – Saint Augustine
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. – Saint Augustine
You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds rest in you. – Saint Augustine
The measure of love is to love without measure. – Saint Augustine