858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.

What can be hoped for which is not believed?

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

The one who sings, prays twice.

O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all. Thus a man supported by faith, hope, and charity, with an unshaken hold upon them does not need the scriptures. . . And many live by these three things in solitude without books.

The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.