858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger.

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.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.

Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.

In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.