Quotes from St. Augustine
God without us will not as we without God cannot.
- St. Augustine
Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.
- St. Augustine
Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.
- St. Augustine
Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.
- St. Augustine
This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.
- St. Augustine
We speak, but it is God who teaches.
- St. Augustine
God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
- St. Augustine
God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.
- St. Augustine
God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.
- St. Augustine
I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
- St. Augustine
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .
- St. Augustine
All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.
- St. Augustine