“Pride is the beginning of sin. And what is pride but the craving for undue exaltation? And this is undue exaltation – when the soul abandons Him to whom it ought to cleave as its end, and becomes a kind of end to itself.”1
“He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.”
“He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.”
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
“Trials come to prove and improve us.”
“Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.”
“He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.”
“A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.”
“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.”
“The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.”
“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
“The measure of love is to love without measure.”
“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.”
“True martyrdom is not determined by the penalty suffered, but by the cause.”
“The human race is inquisitive about other people’s lives, but negligent to correct their own.”
“My inner self was a house divided against itself.”
“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.”
“In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.”
1 All of these quotes are from the websites below:
Inspirational Quotes by Augustine (bibleportal.com)
146 Augustine Quotes | ChristianQuotes.info
Augustine of Hippo (250+ Sourced Quotes) – Lib Quotes
City of God Quotes by Augustine of Hippo (goodreads.com)