Quotes from Saint Augustine

God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.

Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.

If you understand, it is not God.

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.

We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.

Every infinity... is made finite to God.

God without us will not as we without God cannot.

Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God's debtor.

He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.