Saint Augustine Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• If you understood him, it would not be God.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian Inspirational, Understanding, Understood

• All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.

  Saint Augustine

  Light, Understanding, Divine

• 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.

• Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though there be no numbering of infinite numbers, is yet not incomprehensible by Him Whose understanding is infinite. And thus, if everything which is comprehended is defined or made finite by the comprehension of him who knows it, then all infinity is in some ineffable way made finite to God, for it is comprehensible by His knowledge.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Numbers, Understanding

• We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Writing, Understanding

• Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.

  Saint Augustine

  Ignorance, Punishment, Understanding

• 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

• Understanding is the reward of faith.

  Saint Augustine

  Understanding, Rewards

  "Tractates on the Gospel of John". Book by Augustine. Tractate 29, www.newadvent.org.

• For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God.

  Saint Augustine

  Angel, Son, Light

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.470, Catholic Way Publishing

• Understanding is the wages of faith.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Understanding, Wages

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