Saint Augustine Quotes

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

Salvation is God’s way of making us real people.

Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.

Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself – the latter in God.

Things are solved by walking around.

What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

Anger is a weed; hate is a tree

It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.