Saint Augustine Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Eye, Order

• Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Selfish, Book

  Saint Augustine (2010). “The Confessions”, p.198, New City Press

• The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Book, Home

• If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Scripture, Contradiction

• For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Angel, Doe

  Saint Augustine (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

• Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all. Thus a man supported by faith, hope, and charity, with an unshaken hold upon them does not need the scriptures. . . And many live by these three things in solitude without books.

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Men, Thinking

  "People of the book" by Richard Harries, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2007.

• In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden.

  Saint Augustine

  Suicide, Book, Suicidal

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9337, Aeterna Press

• If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Believe, Book

  John Hammond Taylor, Saint Augustine (1983). “Genesi Ad Litteram”, p.43, Paulist Press

• The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Cities, Saint

• I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Writing, Said

  "The Confessions; The City of God; On Christian Doctrine".

• It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Light, Mind

• In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Usual, Study

• When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Opportunity, Imagination

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