Quote

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

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
Even
Reasons
Believe
Seek
Way
Accept
Accepting
Since
Forbid
Heaven
Possess
Soul
Rational
Reason
Souls

More quotes by Saint Augustine

Image
Every city is a living body.
Saint Augustine
Image
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
Saint Augustine
Image
Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.
Saint Augustine
Image
God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
Saint Augustine
Image
We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.
Saint Augustine
Image
A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot
Saint Augustine
Image
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.
Saint Augustine
Image
Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.
Saint Augustine
Image
Beware of bad Catholics.
Saint Augustine
Image
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
Saint Augustine
Image
The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)
Saint Augustine
Image
What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.
Saint Augustine
Image
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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
A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.
Saint Augustine
Image
We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.
Saint Augustine
Image
Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self the heavenly by the love of God.
Saint Augustine
Image
Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .
Saint Augustine
Image
The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.
Saint Augustine
Image
The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.
Saint Augustine