40 Quotes by St. Augustine of Hippo

A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people.

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.