For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
SAINT AUGUSTINEHe who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
-
-
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
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 -
We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
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 -
Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
The measure of love is to love without measure.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
SAINT AUGUSTINE