Quotes by Saint Augustine

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There is no possible source of evil except good.

Saint Augustine

To seek the highest good is to live well.

Saint Augustine

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Saint Augustine
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine
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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Saint Augustine

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Saint Augustine

He that is jealous is not in love.

Saint Augustine

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Saint Augustine

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Saint Augustine

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Saint Augustine

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Saint Augustine

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Saint Augustine
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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Saint Augustine

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Saint Augustine

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

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

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

Love, and do what you like.

Saint Augustine

The greatest evil is physical pain.

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

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Saint Augustine