Augustine was a philosopher and theologian, and one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity. He framed the concepts of original sin and just war. Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider him to be one of the theological fathers of Reformation teaching on salvation and divine grace. Below are many of his quotations that I pray will encourage and challenge you to develop a closer walk with the Lord.1
“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”
“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
“God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail. ”
“Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.”
“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”
“Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you.”
“A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot.”
“Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.”
“Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.”
“He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.”
“Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love, and the future to God’s providence.”
“The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king.”
“So, anyone who thinks that he has understood the divine scriptures or any part of them, but cannot by his understanding build up this double love of God and neighbor, has not yet succeeded in understanding them.”
“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to permit no evil to exist.”
“Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.”
“Love the sinner and hate the sin.”
“Between temporal and eternal things there is this difference: a temporal thing is loved more before we have it, and it begins to grow worthless when we gain it, for it does not satisfy the soul, whose true and certain rest is eternity; but the eternal is more ardently loved when it is acquired than when it is merely desired.”
“O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.”
“Observe how often these two qualities, loving mercy and truth, are joined together in the holy Scriptures. For in His loving mercy, He called sinners, and in His truth He judgeth those who when called refused to come.”
“O crooked paths! Woe to the audacious soul, which hoped, by forsaking Thee, to gain some better thing!”
“Come, O Lord, and stir our hearts. Call us back to yourself. Kindle your fire in us.”
“But my sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in Him but in myself and His other creatures, and the search led me instead to pain, confusion, and error.”
1 All of these quotes are from the website below: