Saint Augustine Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

  Saint Augustine

  God, Faith, Believe

• God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Prayer, Procrastination

• Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Gun, Men

• Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian Inspirational, Religion, Christianity

• O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

  Saint Augustine

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "In Summer’s Heat, Washington Seeks Refuge in the Loophole" by Michael Winship, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2010.

• There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Temptation, Understanding

  "The day of judgment, part two" by Ian McEwan, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

• Every infinity... is made finite to God.

  Saint Augustine

  God, Faith, Hope

• Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down to the things of earth here below. He points out that these frail and mortal objects could not be endowed with a beauty so immaculate and so exquisitely wrought, did they not issue from the Divinity which endlessly prevades with its invisible and unchanging beauty all things.

  Saint Augustine

  Mean, Issues, Religion

• 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

• The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.

  Saint Augustine

  Passion, Men, Mind

• There is no possible source of evil except good.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Evil, Religion

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