St. Augustine of Hippo Quotes

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

St. Augustine of Hippo

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

St. Augustine of Hippo

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

St. Augustine of Hippo

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

St. Augustine of Hippo

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

St. Augustine of Hippo

God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.

St. Augustine of Hippo

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

St. Augustine of Hippo

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

St. Augustine of Hippo

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other.

St. Augustine of Hippo

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.

St. Augustine of Hippo

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

St. Augustine of Hippo

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

St. Augustine of Hippo

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

St. Augustine of Hippo

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

St. Augustine of Hippo

Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow. Thou mayest say, "I love only God, God the Father." Wrong! If Thou lovest Him, thou dost not love Him alone; but if thou lovest the Father, thou lovest also the Son. Or thou mayest say, "I love the Father and I love the Son, but these alone; God the Father and God the Son, our Lord Jesus Christ who ascended into heaven and sitteth at the right hand of the Father, the Word by whom all things were made, the Word who was made flesh and dwelt amongst us; only these do I love." Wrong again! If thou lovest the Head, thou lovest also the members; if thou lovest not the members, neither dost thou love the Head.

St. Augustine of Hippo