858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself.

Give what You command and command what You will.

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

If faith fails, prayer perishes.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean, the course of the stars-and forget to wonder at themselves. Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.