Quotes from St. Augustine
We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.
- St. Augustine
My weight is my love.
- St. Augustine
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
- St. Augustine
How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.
- St. Augustine
Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.
- St. Augustine
The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.
- St. Augustine
Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.
- St. Augustine
If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.
- St. Augustine
Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you...and protect me, for today I could betray you.
- St. Augustine
It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
- St. Augustine
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
- St. Augustine
There is no possible source of evil except good.
- St. Augustine