Quotes from St. Augustine
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
- St. Augustine
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
- St. Augustine
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
- St. Augustine
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
- St. Augustine
The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
- St. Augustine
All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.
- St. Augustine
Beauty is the brilliance of truth.
- St. Augustine
Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.
- St. Augustine
Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .
- St. Augustine
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.
- St. Augustine
Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love.
- St. Augustine
Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.
- St. Augustine