Quotes from St. Augustine
The greatest evil is physical pain.
- St. 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.
- St. Augustine
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
- St. Augustine
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
- St. Augustine
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
- St. Augustine
Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.
- St. Augustine
Christ was born of a woman without the man.
- St. Augustine
While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
- St. Augustine
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
- St. Augustine
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
- St. Augustine
By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].
- St. Augustine
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.
- St. Augustine