Quotes from St. Augustine
The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
- St. Augustine
Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.
- St. Augustine
The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.
- St. Augustine
The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.
- St. Augustine
When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
- St. Augustine
What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.
- St. Augustine
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
- St. Augustine
Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.
- St. Augustine
Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."
- St. 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.
- St. Augustine
When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.
- St. Augustine
As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.
- St. Augustine