St Augustine Quotes

19 quotes from 6 authors

St. Augustine’s voice still rings in our heads, whether he’s lamenting the gap between thought and deed or celebrating the peace that follows full devotion. You’ll find him wrestling with doubt, confessing longing, and even praising the apostles as the best teachers after Christ. If you’re drawn to the tension between belief and practice, this mix of 19 distinct perspectives offers a compact but vivid snapshot of his restless mind.

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Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?

Mary Oliver

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“ Solvitur ambulando , St. Augustine said. It is solved by walking.”

Laura Kelly

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“God loves each of us as if there is only one of us. St. Augustine”

Karen Malena

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“as St Augustine put it, was man a mere child playing in the rock pools of a beach ignoring the great ocean…

Paul Doherty

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Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.

Martin Luther

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“The World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page' St. Augustine of Hippo”

Monica Joseph

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“He who knows how to pray well, knows how to live well. —St. Augustine”

David N. Calvillo

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“Hence we should all make St. Augustine's prayer our own: "Lord, here cut, here burn and spare me not, but spare me…

Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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

The Catholic Church

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“St. Augustine is reported to have said, “God, this is the only problem for me: whatsoever I think is worth doing I…

Osho

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Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the…

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't doubt it,…

Josemaria Escriva

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I'm not the first Christian to have a fruity past. I hesitate to compare myself to St Augustine or St Paul, but…

Richard Coles

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“The mind believes what it sees and does what it believes; that is the secret of fascination. And in his book, St…

Antonin Artaud

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Here was St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States. How to build a hotel to meet the requirements of nineteenth…

Henry Flagler

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“St. Augustine wrote something once, something I think about often,” he said. “ ‘God triumphs on the ruins of our plans.’ And maybe…

Anne Rice

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“No single theologian writing in Greek or Syriac in the patristic period exercised an influence in the Christian East comparable to that…

David Bentley Hart

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“Liberal politics is based on the idea that the voters know best, and there is no need for Big Brother to tell…

Yuval Noah Harari

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“My father was a man of iron will. He had a red beard and eyes like caves. He married my mother sensibly…

Robert Nye

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