Quotes by Saint Augustine

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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

Saint Augustine

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Saint Augustine

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

Saint Augustine

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the ...

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

Love is the beauty of the soul.

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

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

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Saint Augustine

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

Saint Augustine

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

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

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

Saint Augustine

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Saint Augustine

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Saint Augustine

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Saint Augustine

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

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

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

Saint Augustine

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Saint Augustine

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

Saint Augustine