Saint Augustine Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Heart, Thinking

• O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Dark, Dwelling

• If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Heart, Desire

• God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies gray and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life, to your honor and glory.

  Saint Augustine

  Running, Lonely, Hero

• O Lord my God,
  tell me what you are to me.
  Say to my soul,
  I am your salvation.
  Say it so that I can hear it.
  My heart is listening, Lord;
  open the ears of my heart
  and say to my soul,
  I am your salvation.
  Let me run toward this voice
  and seize hold of you.
  Do not hide your face from me:
  let me die so that I may see it,
  for not to see it would be death to me indeed.

  Saint Augustine

  Running, Heart, Voice

  "Prayers from the Confessions".

• Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, God, Jesus

• I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

  Saint Augustine

  Fall, Heart, Suspense

• Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Humble, Fire

  "Why Do Christians Fast? Three Reasons Explained by St. Thomas Aquinas" by Gretchen Filz, www.catholiccompany.com. March 23, 2017.

• And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

  Saint Augustine

  Easter, Heart, Sight

  "Confessions".

• Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

  Saint Augustine

  Happiness, Heart, Optimism

• Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Heart, Quiet

• Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Restless, Restless Heart

  Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.4, OUP Oxford

• Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'

  Saint Augustine

  Blessed, Heart, Men

• There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.

  Saint Augustine

  Humble, Humility, Heart

  "The Confessions".

• Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Desire, Satisfied

• Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when I was not with Thee. Thou didst call, and cry, and burst my deafness. Thou didst gleam, and glow, and dispell my blindness. Thou didst touch me, and I burned for Thy peace. For Thyself Thou hast made us, and restless our hearts until in Thee they find their ease. Late have I loved Thee, Thou Beauty ever old and ever new. Thou hast burst my bonds asunder; unto Thee will I offer up an offering of praise.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Peace, Heart

• To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Heart, Justice

• Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Love Is, Voice

• Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to you own but correct your will to that of God. The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of being converted and of correcting your evil ways.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Mean, Evil

• Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Heart, Prey

• A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Eye, Messengers

• You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

  Saint Augustine

  Spiritual, Heart, Answers

• The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Men, Memorial

• Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Men, Hair

• To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Men, Flames

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