“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”1
“If you plan to build a tall house of virtues, you must first lay deep foundations of humility.”
“God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.”
“Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love and the future to God’s providence.”
“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.”
“To be assured of our salvation is no arrogant stoutness. It is faith. It is devotion. It is not presumption. It is God’s promise.”
“Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.”
“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”
“People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.”
“The measure of love is to love without measure.”
“Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?”
“In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.”
“Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.”
“We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.”
“Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.”
“Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.”
“If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.”
“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”
“The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.”
“Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.”
“I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them, ‘Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.’”
“The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God.”
“If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, ‘The author of this book is mistaken;’ but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.”
“What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.”
“This joy in God is not like any pleasure found in physical or intellectual satisfaction. Nor is it such as a friend experiences in the presence of a friend. But, if we are to use any such analogy, it is more like the eye rejoicing in light.”
“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.”
“All who know the truth know this Light, and all who know this Light know eternity.”
“Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.”
1 All of the following quotes are from the websites below:
Inspirational Quotes by Augustine (bibleportal.com)
146 Augustine Quotes | ChristianQuotes.info
TOP 25 QUOTES BY SAINT AUGUSTINE (of 753) | A-Z Quotes (azquotes.com)
Augustine of Hippo (250+ Sourced Quotes) – Lib Quotes
City of God Quotes by Augustine of Hippo (goodreads.com)