Saint Augustine Quotes

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Beginning Break Up Ending Growth Kiss Love Smile Tears
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Church Father God Mother
Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Inspirational Justice Right Wrong
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Believe Rejection Truth Yourself
If you understood him, it would not be God.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Understand
Love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Beauty Love One Liner Soul
Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Crime Despair God Lord Save
If you understood him, it would not be God.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Understand
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Concept Experience Print
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Body Die Forever Future Live Soul Take Care
We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
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Alone Discover Reason Truth Weak
Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Afraif God Lord Throw Yourself
If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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Gift God Preparation Respond Slow
Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Love Mortal Slave Soul Unhappy
Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Dependent Family One Liner Peace Society
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Habit Necessary One Liner Resistence
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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God Religious
Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Accomplishment Action Advance Glory Humility Value Virtue Work
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Fashion Hell One Liner
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Goodness Hands Receive Try
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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God Man One Liner Provide Raise Sail Wind
Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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God Heart Religious Rest
Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Look One Liner Place Right Sin Wrong
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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Believe Faith Reward
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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Forgiveness God Procrastination Promise Repentance
We speak, but it is God who teaches.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God One Liner Speak Teaching
We speak, but it is God who teaches.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God One Liner Speak Teaching

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