--- title: "8 Command Quotes By Saint Augustine" description: "8 Command quotes by Saint Augustine. Plus more from Saint Augustine and more Command sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe5/saint-augustine-328_building_samson-crushed-himself-and-his-enemies-t_290154.jpg" --- > [Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/samson-crushed-himself-and-his-enemies-to-death-beneath-the-ruins-of/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe5/saint-augustine-328_building_samson-crushed-himself-and-his-enemies-t_290154.jpg) > [Give what You command and command what You will.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/give-what-you-command-and-command-what-you-will/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/903/saint-augustine-328_command_give-what-you-command-and-command-what-y_353561.png) > [Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/grant-what-thou-commandest-and-command-what-thou-wilt/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/385/saint-augustine-328_command_grant-what-thou-commandest-and-command-w_723214.png) > [Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/therefore-give-to-the-poor-i-beg-you-i-admonish-you-i-charge-you-i/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e50/saint-augustine-328_admonish_therefore-give-to-the-poor-i-beg-you-i-a_1204635.png) > [The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/the-mind-commands-the-body-and-it-obeys-forthwith-the-mind-commands/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/926/saint-augustine-328_command_the-mind-commands-the-body-and-it-obeys_1353399.jpg) > [Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/slavery-is-not-penal-in-character-and-planned-by-that-law-which/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c4/saint-augustine-328_character_slavery-is-not-penal-in-character-and-pl_1462367.png) > [The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/the-mind-commands-the-mind-to-will-and-yet-though-it-be-itself-it/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee7/saint-augustine-328_command_the-mind-commands-the-mind-to-will-and-y_1683242.png) > [Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/grant-what-thou-commandest-and-then-command-what-thou-wilt/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2da/saint-augustine-328_command_grant-what-thou-commandest-and-then-comm_1856076.png) ## Other authors on Command ## More by Saint Augustine > [Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/lust-indulged-became-habit-and-habit-unresisted-became-necessity/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [The playthings of our elders are called business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/the-playthings-of-our-elders-are-called-business/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/do-what-you-can-and-pray-for-what-you-cannot-yet-do/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/for-i-did-not-know-that-the-soul-needs-to-be-enlightened-by-light/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/my-mother-spoke-of-christ-to-my-father-by-her-feminine-and-childlike/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/wicked-sons-do-not-have-the-holy-ghost-in-the-same-way-as-do-beloved/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/to-wisdom-belongs-the-intellectual-apprehension-of-things-eternal-to/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/it-is-this-one-spirit-who-makes-it-possible-for-an-infant-to-be/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/god-has-no-need-of-your-money-but-the-poor-have-you-give-it-to-the/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/nothing-conquers-except-truth-and-the-victory-of-truth-is-love/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/o-god-who-is-ever-at-work-and-ever-at-rest-may-i-be-ever-at-work-and/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/our-lord-reserved-to-himself-certain-things-which-he-would-do-in-due/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/give-me-chastity-and-continence-but-not-yet/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/nothing-therefore-happens-unless-the-omnipotent-wills-it-to-happen-he/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [The reward of patience Is patience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/the-reward-of-patience-is-patience/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/command/saint-augustine/#itemlist", "name": "8 Command Quotes By Saint Augustine", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds that the Spirit of the Lord, who wrought miracles through him, had bidden him to do so. 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