Quotes from St. Augustine
For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.
- St. Augustine
Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.
- St. Augustine
Except he be willing, man cannot believe.
- St. Augustine
When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
- St. Augustine
A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
- St. Augustine
The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.
- St. Augustine
Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.
- St. Augustine
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves
- St. Augustine
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
- St. Augustine
The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.
- St. Augustine
To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.
- St. Augustine
It is a sin to judge any man by his post
- St. Augustine