Quotes from St. Augustine
Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.
- St. Augustine
Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.
- St. Augustine
If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.
- St. Augustine
And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.
- St. Augustine
One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.
- St. Augustine
We judge all things according to the divine truth.
- St. Augustine
I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.
- St. Augustine
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
- St. Augustine
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
- St. Augustine
If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
- St. Augustine
Love God, then do what you will.
- St. Augustine
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
- St. Augustine