Saint Augustine Quotes and Sayings

Don’t you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

He that is jealous is not in love.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Hear the other side.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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