Quote

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

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
Learned
Taught
Inspirational
Schooled
Talked
Educational

More quotes by Saint Augustine

Image
There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.
Saint Augustine
Image
You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.
Saint Augustine
Image
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
Saint Augustine
Image
What you see is the bread and the chalice that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith yet faith does not desire instruction
Saint Augustine
Image
Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.
Saint Augustine
Image
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Saint Augustine
Image
There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.
Saint Augustine
Image
If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
Saint Augustine
Image
Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.
Saint Augustine
Image
Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.
Saint Augustine
Image
Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
Saint Augustine
Image
Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.
Saint Augustine
Image
Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
Saint Augustine
Image
I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
Saint Augustine
Image
When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when you infest the whole world but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.
Saint Augustine
Image
You can live, provided you live that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
Saint Augustine
Image
Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to you own but correct your will to that of God. The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of being converted and of correcting your evil ways.
Saint Augustine
Image
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.
Saint Augustine
Image
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine
Image
The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
Saint Augustine