Life Quotes by Saint Augustine

Every city is a living body.

— Saint Augustine

We should never use the truth to wound.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

“The soul is the life whereby we are joined into the body.”

— Saint Augustine

Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.

— Saint Augustine

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within…

— Saint Augustine

The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of…

— Saint Augustine

When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will…

— Saint Augustine

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions…

— Saint Augustine

What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime,…

— Saint Augustine

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would…

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due…

— 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

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

— Saint Augustine

Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus…

— Saint Augustine

There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties…

— Saint Augustine

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers,…

— Saint Augustine

Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we…

— Saint Augustine

Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into…

— Saint Augustine

Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it…

— Saint Augustine

Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which…

— Saint Augustine

Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end…

— Saint Augustine

God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road…

— Saint Augustine

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

— Saint Augustine

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

— Saint Augustine

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

— Saint Augustine

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

— Saint Augustine

“The happy life is this - to rejoice to thee, in thee, and for thee.”

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

— Saint Augustine