Saint Augustine Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.”

“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”

“There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.”

“Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.”

“Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.”

“The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.”

“He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.”

“Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.”

“God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.”

“The purpose of all wars, is peace.”