Quotes from St. Augustine
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
- St. Augustine
A marriage without children is the world without the sun.
- St. Augustine
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
- St. Augustine
If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
- St. Augustine
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
- St. Augustine
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
- St. Augustine
I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.
- St. Augustine
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.
- St. Augustine
Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.
- St. Augustine
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
- St. Augustine
Custom is second nature.
- St. Augustine
For it is one thing to see the Land of Peace from a wooded ridge, and yet another to walk the road that leads to it.
- St. Augustine