God Quotes by Saint Augustine

Every infinity... is made finite to God.

— Saint Augustine

What do you possess if you possess not God?

— Saint Augustine

He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.

— Saint Augustine

Love God, and do what you like.

— Saint Augustine

God without us will not as we without God cannot.

— Saint Augustine

God is best known in not knowing him.

— Saint Augustine

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. Saint Augustine

— Saint Augustine

Whoever possesses God is happy.

— Saint Augustine

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One…

— Saint Augustine

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it…

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

— Saint Augustine

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

— Saint Augustine

“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.”

— Saint Augustine

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

— Saint Augustine

Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to…

— Saint Augustine

In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you.…

— Saint Augustine

We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need…

— Saint Augustine

As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes…

— Saint Augustine

I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I…

— Saint Augustine

Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true.…

— Saint Augustine

Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful…

— Saint Augustine

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When…

— 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

O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night.…

— Saint Augustine

What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God…

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.

— Saint Augustine

Love God, then do what you will.

— Saint Augustine

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

— Saint Augustine

If you understand, it is not God.

— Saint Augustine

If you comprehend, it is not God.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

We come to God by love and not by navigation.

— Saint Augustine

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

— Saint Augustine

Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.

— Saint Augustine