Saint Augustine Quotes:
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Saint Augustine
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
Saint Augustine
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Saint Augustine
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Saint Augustine
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
Saint Augustine
To seek the highest good is to live well.
Saint Augustine
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
Saint Augustine
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine