Quote

Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.

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
Christian
Cannot
Without

More quotes by Saint Augustine

Image
Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
Saint Augustine
Image
So give to the poor I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.
Saint Augustine
Image
Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.
Saint Augustine
Image
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
Saint Augustine
Image
Give what You command and command what You will.
Saint Augustine
Image
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
Saint Augustine
Image
I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.
Saint Augustine
Image
Order your soul reduce your wants live in charity associate in Christian community obey the laws trust in Providence.
Saint Augustine
Image
Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.
Saint Augustine
Image
I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
Saint Augustine
Image
If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
Saint Augustine
Image
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
Saint Augustine
Image
Between urine and filth we are born.
Saint Augustine
Image
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
Saint Augustine
Image
By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.
Saint Augustine
Image
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.
Saint Augustine
Image
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
Saint Augustine
Image
Love is ever new because it never groweth old.
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
All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.
Saint Augustine