Saint Augustine Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

  Saint Augustine

  Dance, Angel, Heaven

• Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Stars, Distance

• The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

  Saint Augustine

  Our World, Heaven, Saint

• 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

• He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Giving, Heaven

• The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Giving, Heaven

• Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not as it is: because that even we, though the well beloved of thy Son, yet it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. He looked through the lattice of our flesh and he spake us fair, yea, he set us on fire, and we hasten on his scent. But when he shall appear, then shall we be like him, for we shall see him as he is: as he is, Lord, will our sight be, though the time be not yet.

  Saint Augustine

  Time, Son, Fire

• The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him, though otherwise than as they shall reign hereafter; and yet, though the tares grow in the Church along with the wheat, they do not reign with Him. For they reign with Him who do what the apostle says, 'If you are risen with Christ, mind the things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. Seek those things which are above, not the things which are on the earth'.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Hands, Heaven

  "The Works of Aurelius Augustine: A New Translation".

• Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Water, Heaven

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.739, Aeterna Press

• No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Heaven, Kingdoms

• 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

• Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Heaven, Soul

  "Column: Nothing new in pope's speech", beforeitsnews.com. July 8, 2015.

• For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets.

  Saint Augustine

  Stars, Heart, Humble

  Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.115

• As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world, it may be understood that they are held as approved and instituted either by the apostles themselves, or by plenary Councils, whose authority in the Church is most useful, e.g. the annual commemoration, by special solemnities, of the Lord's passion, resurrection, and ascension, and of the descent of the Holy Spirit from heaven, and whatever else is in like manner observed by the whole Church wherever it has been established.

  Saint Augustine

  Passion, Heaven, Special

• My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Heart, Heaven

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.183, Oxford Paperbacks

• Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

  Saint Augustine

  Heaven, Rewards, Results

• And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?

  Saint Augustine

  Heaven, Calling, Earth

  Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2006). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.5, 1st World Publishing

• I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Men, Heaven

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9, Aeterna Press

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