Saint Augustine Quotes

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. - Saint Augustine

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. - Saint Augustine

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. - Saint Augustine

To seek the highest good is to live well. - Saint Augustine

To Carthage I came, where there sang all around my ears a cauldron of unholy loves. - Saint Augustine

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. - Saint Augustine

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. - Saint Augustine

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee.. - Saint Augustine

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