Saint Augustine Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.”

“Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.”

“My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.”

“This world's a bubble.”

“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”

“To seek the highest good is to live well.”

“Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.”

“We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.”

“In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.”

“Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.”