Saint Augustine Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Change, Beautiful

  "Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy". Book by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 136, 1988.

• What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Life, Sympathy

  "Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

• The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  "Mathematics in Western Culture". Book by Morris Kline, 1953.

• Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Change, Song

• People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book X, (c. 161 - 180 AD).

• Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Christian, Law

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

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Book, Home

• Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

• We should never use the truth to wound.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Advice, Use

• I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Loving Life, Might

  "Confessions" by Saint Augustine, Book III, (1), (c. 397).

• Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Beauty, Ancient

  "Theology and Discovery: Essays in honor of Karl Rahner, S.J." edited by William J. Kelly, 1980.

• Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Brother, Men

  "On the Mystical Body of Christ". "The Whole Christ: The Historical Development of the Doctrine of the Mystical Body in Scripture and Tradition". Book by Emile Mersch, p. 436, 1962.

• It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Faithful, Asks

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 392, 1895.

• Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Soul, Charity

• Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest... And of what consequence is it what kind of death puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not forced to go through the same ordeal a second time? They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Needs, Kind

  "The City of God".

• Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Spring, Love Is

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Aeterna Press “Homilies on the Gospel According to Saint John: And His First Epistle”, Aeterna Press

• Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Art, Men

• What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Human Nature, Immense

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