Quote

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

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
People
Hippo
Victorious
Conqueror
Conquered
Remained
Victory
Less
Like
Conquerors

More quotes by Saint Augustine

Image
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
Saint Augustine
Image
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine
Image
Beauty is the brilliance of truth.
Saint Augustine
Image
And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is and he that knows It, knows Eternity.
Saint Augustine
Image
By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.
Saint Augustine
Image
Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.
Saint Augustine
Image
Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.
Saint Augustine
Image
Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.
Saint Augustine
Image
Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.
Saint Augustine
Image
God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.
Saint Augustine
Image
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.
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
Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.
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
All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.
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
You can live, provided you live that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
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
The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14).
Saint Augustine
Image
Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!
Saint Augustine