Christian Quotes by Saint Augustine

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

— Saint Augustine

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

— Saint Augustine

He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.

— Saint Augustine

Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not

— Saint Augustine

The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.

— Saint Augustine

In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.

— Saint Augustine

He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father.

— Saint Augustine

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

— Saint Augustine

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

— Saint Augustine

Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

— Saint Augustine

All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

— Saint Augustine

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

— Saint Augustine

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of…

— Saint Augustine

Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.

— Saint Augustine

God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.

— Saint Augustine

Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been…

— Saint Augustine

What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their…

— Saint Augustine

A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according…

— Saint Augustine

The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have…

— Saint Augustine

The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is…

— Saint Augustine

If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about…

— Saint Augustine

Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak…

— Saint Augustine

What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ...…

— Saint Augustine

In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only…

— Saint Augustine

... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man…

— Saint Augustine

In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where…

— Saint Augustine

Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order…

— Saint Augustine

The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him,…

— Saint Augustine

Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits…

— Saint Augustine

Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic…

— Saint Augustine

Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity…

— Saint Augustine

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and…

— Saint Augustine

The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed,…

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you…

— Saint Augustine

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made…

— Saint Augustine