Quotes from St. Augustine
Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.
- St. Augustine
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
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.
- St. Augustine
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
- St. Augustine
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
- St. Augustine
In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
- St. Augustine
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
- St. Augustine
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
- St. Augustine
Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.
- St. Augustine
By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.
- St. Augustine
We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.
- St. Augustine
The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.
- St. Augustine