Saint Augustine Quotes About Creation

Quotes about: Creation

• 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

• There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

  Saint Augustine

  Soul, Contentment, Elements

• Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

  Saint Augustine

  Angel, Names, Heaven

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.468, Catholic Way Publishing

• I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

  Saint Augustine

  World, Evolution, Creation

  Saint Augustine (2014). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.119, Open Road Media

• Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, "It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you.

  Saint Augustine

  Beautiful, Voice, Doe

• Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

  Saint Augustine

  Children, Ambition, Work Out

• For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God.

  Saint Augustine

  Angel, Son, Light

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.470, Catholic Way Publishing

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