Quote

For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.

Saint Augustine

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Saint Augustine
Autobiographer
Historian
Music Theorist
Philosopher
Poet
Preacher
Presbyter
Saint
Theologian
Writer
Treveris
Saint Augustine
Saint Austin
Augustine
St. Augoustinos
St. Augustine of Hippo
Aurelius Augustinus
Aurelius Augustine
Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis
St. Augustine
Augustinus
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Augustinus
Aurelius
Love
Soul
Philosophical
Live
Clearly
Wells
Deny
Well
Seek
Nothing
Highest
Heart
Since
Mind
Else
Follows
Good
Cannot
Chief

More quotes by Saint Augustine

Image
For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
Saint Augustine
Image
The desire is thy prayers and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Saint Augustine
Image
Whoever possesses God is happy.
Saint Augustine
Image
Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.
Saint Augustine
Image
You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: Do this! And you did it.
Saint Augustine
Image
For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.
Saint Augustine
Image
The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.
Saint Augustine
Image
Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved do not despair. One was not do not presume.
Saint Augustine
Image
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
Saint Augustine
Image
Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.
Saint Augustine
Image
Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.
Saint Augustine
Image
Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?
Saint Augustine
Image
All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.
Saint Augustine
Image
If you understood him, it would not be God.
Saint Augustine
Image
Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love if you shout, you will shout with love if you correct, you will correct with love.
Saint Augustine
Image
You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.
Saint Augustine
Image
Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.
Saint Augustine
Image
Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.
Saint Augustine
Image
For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.
Saint Augustine
Image
The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.
Saint Augustine