858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will perish first. For neither can you remain here always, nor can silver remain here always; so also with gold, wardrobes, houses, money, real estate-and in the end, even the light by which we enjoy all these things. So do not be willing then to rejoice in such things as these. Rejoice instead in the light that has no setting; rejoice in the dawn which no yesterday precedes, and no tomorrow follows.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'