Saint Augustine Quotes
Also known as Aurelius Augustine and St. Augustine of Hippo, he was a Christian theologian, rhetor, North African bishop, Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church, and saint. Some scholars consider him a Neoplatonist as well.
(354 - 430)
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A good conscience is the palace of Christ; the temple of the Holy Ghost; the paradise of delight; the standing Sabbath of the saints.
[Conscience]
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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A wanton eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.
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All our life goeth like Penelope's web, and what one hour effects, the next destroys.
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and 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.
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Be displeased with what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest, and if thou sayest I have enough, thou perishest.
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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.
[Beauty]
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Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.
[Repentance]
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Blessedness consists in the acomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
[Justice]
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
[Prayer]
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
[Begin]
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.
[Drunkenness]
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
[Faith]
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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
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