Saint Augustine Quotes About Saints

Quotes about: Saints

• Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Spiritual, Prayer

  "Is It Okay to Pray for Material Things?" by Rick Hamlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

• If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

  Saint Augustine

  God, Faith, Believe

• God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies gray and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life, to your honor and glory.

  Saint Augustine

  Running, Lonely, Hero

• Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspiring, Philosophical, Justice

  "Majority of one". Book by Sydney J. Harris, p. 283, 1957.

• If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

  Saint Augustine

  Friendship, Hands, Two Friends

• What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Life, Sympathy

  "Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

• God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Faith, God

• It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Angel, Pride

  "Manipulus Florum". Book edited by Thomas Hibernicus,

• There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

  Saint Augustine

  Past, Equality, Saint

• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational Life, Philosophical, Humility

• Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Humble, Fire

  "Why Do Christians Fast? Three Reasons Explained by St. Thomas Aquinas" by Gretchen Filz, www.catholiccompany.com. March 23, 2017.

• This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

  Saint Augustine

  Desire, Saint, May

• God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

  Saint Augustine

  Giving, Saint, Needs

• Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Perfect, Catholic

• The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Evil, Saint

  "Tractates on the Gospel of John" by Saint Augustine, tractate XII on John 3:6-21, § 13,

• This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Men, Perfection

• Love is the beauty of the soul.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Romantic, Beauty

  "The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy: Daily Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers". Book by Gregory Bergman, 2004.

• Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

  Saint Augustine

  Past, Medicine, Suffering

• You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Enemy, Saint

• Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul with the garment of faith? Remember each morning the truths of your creed, and look at yourself in the mirror of your faith. Otherwise, your soul will soon be naked with the nakedness of oblivion.

  Saint Augustine

  Morning, Clothes, Mirrors

• Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

  Saint Augustine

  Brother, Believe, Trying

• The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

  Saint Augustine

  Our World, Heaven, Saint

• What do you possess if you possess not God?

  Saint Augustine

  Saint, Ifs

• The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

  Saint Augustine

  Exercise, Suffering, Wicked

• O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

  Saint Augustine

  Saint, Masters, Chaste

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