A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustine

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
Saint Augustine

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Saint Augustine

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Saint Augustine

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine


Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Saint Augustine

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Saint Augustine

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Saint Augustine

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
Saint Augustine

He that is jealous is not in love.
Saint Augustine

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Saint Augustine

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
Saint Augustine

Hear the other side.
Saint Augustine