Quotes from Saint Augustine

Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.

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.

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

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.

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

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