The Complete Works of St. Augustine Quotes

“the meek are those who yield to acts of wickedness, and do not resist evil, but overcome evil with good.( Rom. xii. 21 . ) Let those, then, who are not meek quarrel and fight for earthly and temporal things; but “blessed are the meek, for they shall by inheritance possess the earth,” from which they cannot be driven out.[”
― Augustine of Hippo, The Complete Works of St. Augustine: Cross-linked to the Bible and with in-line footnotes

“How foolish, therefore, are those who seek God with these outward eyes, since He is seen with the heart!”
― Augustine of Hippo, The Complete Works of St. Augustine: Cross-linked to the Bible and with in-line footnotes

“If you would see God, here is what you should imagine: God is love. What sort of face does love have?”
― Augustine of Hippo, The Complete Works of Augustine

“Here, certainly, there is no place for the vain argument of those who defend the foreknowledge of God against the grace of God, and accordingly maintain that we were elected before the foundation of the world, because God foreknew that we would be good, not that he himself would make us good. This is not the language of him who says, 'Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you' (John 15:16).”
― Augustine of Hippo, The Complete Works of St. Augustine: Cross-linked to the Bible and with in-line footnotes

“Neither were they afraid of its being said to them, Why do you exhort us, and why do you rebuke us, if no good thing that we have is from us, and if our hearts are not in our own power?”
― Augustine of Hippo, The Complete Works of Augustine

“For He foreknew the remnant which He should make so according to the election of grace. That is, therefore, He predestinated them; for without doubt He foreknew if He predestinated; but to have predestinated is to have foreknown that which He should do.”
― Augustine of Hippo, The Complete Works of Augustine