Top 15 Augustine of Hippo Quotes

Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)

St. Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a Christian theologian, rhetor, North African bishop, Doctor of the Catholic Church, saint, and a philosopher influenced in his early years by Manichaeism and the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus.

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Native Name: Aurelius Augustinus

Alternative Names: Saint Augustine • Saint Austin • Augustine • St. Augoustinos • St. Augustine of Hippo • Aurelius Augustine • Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis • St. Augustine • Augustinus • Saint Augustine of Hippo • Augustinus, Aurelius • bishop of Hippo

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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

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

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

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.

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.

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.

And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, yet pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought.

The measure of love is to love without measure.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

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

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.