"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies."
— Augustine of Hippo

"People travel to wonder
at the height of the mountains,
at the huge waves of the seas,
at the long course of the rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars,
and yet they pass by themselves
without wondering. "
— Augustine of Hippo

"There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”"
— Augustine of Hippo (The Confessions of Saint Augustine)

"I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden."
— Augustine of Hippo

"If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Take up and read, take up and read."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. "
— Augustine of Hippo

"Hope has two beautiful daughters
anger and courage: anger that sees things the way they are, and courage to make things the way they ought to be"
— Augustine of Hippo

"Lord, make me chaste... but not yet."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?"
— Augustine of Hippo

"God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination."
— Augustine of Hippo

"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Patience is the companion of wisdom. "
— Augustine of Hippo

"Sin is Energy in the wrong channel. "
— Augustine of Hippo

"Love is the beauty of the soul"
— Augustine of Hippo

"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature. "
— Augustine of Hippo

"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 look like."
— Augustine of Hippo

"I have said before, and shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love."
— Augustine of Hippo

""To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement." "
— Augustine of Hippo

"Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Love God, and do what you like."
— Augustine of Hippo

"God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable."
— Augustine of Hippo

"God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full - there is no where for him to put it"
— Augustine of Hippo (City of God)

"Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, "It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you." "
— Augustine of Hippo

"In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer"
— Augustine of Hippo

"Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

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— Augustine of Hippo

"Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue. "
— Augustine of Hippo

"Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness"
— Augustine of Hippo

"The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)"
— Augustine of Hippo

"Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Belatedly I loved thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new, belatedly I loved thee. For see, thou wast within and I was without, and I sought thee out there. Unlovely, I rushed heedlessly among the lovely things thou hast made. Thou wast with me, but I was not with thee. These things kept me far from thee; even though they were not at all unless they were in thee. Thou didst call and cry aloud, and didst force open my deafness. Thou didst gleam and shine, and didst chase away my blindness. Thou didst breathe fragrant odors and I drew in my breath; and now I pant for thee. I tasted, and now I hunger and thirst. Thou didst touch me, and I burned for thy peace."
— Augustine of Hippo

"God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail. "
— Augustine of Hippo

""Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.""
— Augustine of Hippo

"Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Variation on the middle sentence: A thing is not necessarily false because it is badly expressed, nor true because it is expressed magnificently."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Lord give me chastity and continence, but not yet"
— Augustine of Hippo (Confessions)

"Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)"
— Augustine of Hippo

"When men cannot communicate their thoughts to each other, simply because of difference of language, all the similarity of their common human nature is of no avail to unite them in fellowship."
— Augustine of Hippo (City of God)

"Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."
— Augustine of Hippo

"It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud."
— Augustine of Hippo