Augustine of Hippo Quotes

You know how stupid and weak I am: teach me and heal me.

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

So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.

There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

. . . I would learn to discern and distinguish the difference between presumption and confession, between those who see what the goal is but not how to get there and those who see the way which leads to the home of bliss, not merely as an end to be perceived but as a realm to live in.

Watch, O Lord,
with those who wake,
or watch or weep tonight,
and give your angels charge
over those who sleep.

Tend your sick ones,
O Lord Jesus Christ;
rest your weary ones;
bless your dying ones;
soothe your suffering ones;
pity your afflicted ones;
shield your joyous ones;
and all for your love's sake.

Amen.

Yes, you see the Trinity if you see charity.

For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

In order to understand the Scriptures, it is absolutely necessary to know the whole, complete Christ, that is, Head and members. For sometimes Christ speaks in the name of the Head alone … sometimes in the name of His body, which is the holy Church spread over the entire earth. And we are in His body … and we hear ourselves speaking in it, for the Apostle tells us: “We are members of His body” (Eph. 5:30). In many places does the Apostle tell us this.

Inter faeces et urinam nascimur. (We are born between shit and piss.)

Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)

On Ps 60:3: “To Thee have I cried from the ends of the earth.”