Saint Augustine Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Adversity, Son

• 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

• Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

  Saint Augustine

  Punishment, Medicine, Suffering

• Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

  Saint Augustine

  Punishment, Suffering, Lasts

• Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.

  Saint Augustine

  Jesus, Sleep, Angel

• Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

  Saint Augustine

  Past, Medicine, Suffering

• For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

  Saint Augustine

  Suffering, Want, Littles

• If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Two, Forgiving

• All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.

  Saint Augustine

  Jesus, Suffering, Christ

• God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Evil, Judging

  "Enchiridion" by Saint Augustine, (Ch. 27), (c. 420).

• We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

  Saint Augustine

  Giving, Suffering, Needs

• The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

  Saint Augustine

  Exercise, Suffering, Wicked

• Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.

  Saint Augustine

  Fighting, Temptation, Suffering

• Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

  Saint Augustine

  Mean, Men, Suffering

  Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine: The Autobiography of a Prodigal Who Became a Saint”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

• I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

  Saint Augustine

  Catholic, Suffering, Doe

• They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.

  Saint Augustine

  Joy, Darkness, Suffering

• A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.

  Saint Augustine

  Light, Suffering, World

• What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, People, Grace

  Saint Augustine (2008). “The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)”, p.478, CUA Press

• God suffers not the pain of repentance, nor is He deceived in any matter, so that He would wish to correct that wherein He has erred. But as when a man repents of anything, he wishes to change what he has done; thus where you hear that God repents, look for an actual change. God does it differently from you, although He calls it by the name of repentance; for thou dost it, because you had erred; while He does it, because He avenges, or frees.

  Saint Augustine

  Pain, Men, Names

  Source: www.patheos.com

• God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

  Saint Augustine

  Adversity, Men, Understanding

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