Saint Augustine Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

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  Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Beauty, Wedding

  "The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy: Daily Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers". Book by Gregory Bergman, 2004.

• Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

  Saint Augustine

  Forever, Catholic, Soul

• 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".

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

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Christian, Law

• 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.

• Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Fake People, Humility

• There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

  Saint Augustine

  Soul, Contentment, Elements

• Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.

  Saint Augustine

  Truth, Soul, Purity

• Love is the beauty of the soul.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Romantic, Beauty

  "The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy: Daily Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers". Book by Gregory Bergman, 2004.

• Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

  Saint Augustine

  Adversity, Soul, Grace

• Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

  Saint Augustine

  Soul, Unhappy, Mortals

• Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul with the garment of faith? Remember each morning the truths of your creed, and look at yourself in the mirror of your faith. Otherwise, your soul will soon be naked with the nakedness of oblivion.

  Saint Augustine

  Morning, Clothes, Mirrors

• Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.

  Saint Augustine

  Joy, Forever, Soul

• When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.

  Saint Augustine

  God, Blessed, Soul

• 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

• He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

  Saint Augustine

  Vanity, Evil, Soul

• The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

  Saint Augustine

  Dust, Blood, House

  "Decretum". Book by Gratian, IX. 32. 2, c. 12 AD.

• Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

  Saint Augustine

  Soul, Beloved, God Love

• As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

  Saint Augustine

  God, Soul, Body

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 277, 1895.

• AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

  Saint Augustine

  Father, Son, Kissing

• I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

  Saint Augustine

  Fall, Mean, Self

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.29, Oxford Paperbacks

• If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Philosophical, Soul

• What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Practice, Soul

• And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Eye, Light

  Saint Augustine (2009). “The Confessions of St. Augustine”, p.174, The Floating Press

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