Quotes from St. Augustine
What do you possess if you possess not God?
- St. Augustine
God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.
- St. Augustine
Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.
- St. Augustine
God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.
- St. Augustine
God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
- St. Augustine
The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.
- St. Augustine
If you understand, it is not God.
- St. Augustine
You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'
- St. Augustine
God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.
- St. Augustine
We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.
- St. Augustine
Every infinity... is made finite to God.
- St. Augustine
If you understood him, it would not be God.
- St. Augustine