black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

Saint Augustine

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Happiness Heart Pleasure Treasure
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Religious
In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Charity Essential Liberty Unity
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Explanation Time
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Character Discover Love Observe People
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Fashion Hell One Liner
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Happiness Impossible Indeed Live Man
When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Indeed Strength Weakness
The measure of love is to love without measure.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Love Measure One Liner
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

Anger Beautiful Courage Daughter Hope
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Defend Inspirational Lion Lose Truth
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
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

Correct Goodness Growth Love Pardon Root Silence Speak
Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Contrary Miracle Nature
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
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Atheist Deny Existence God

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Saint Augustine Quotes