Saint Augustine Quotes About Neighbors

Quotes about: Neighbors

• God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Faith, God

• Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.

  Saint Augustine

  Thinking, Doe, Scripture

  St. Augustine, Saint Augustine, J. F. Shaw (2009). “On Christian Doctrine”, p.26, Courier Corporation

• 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

• Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

  Saint Augustine

  Way, Scripture, Doe

• No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Ease, Forget

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Aeterna Press (1931). “The City of God”, p.1710, Aeterna Press

• The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Neighbor, Bounds

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