Inspiring Wisdom – Timeless Quotes from St. Augustine

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

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

In a world of peace, there will be peace in the heart of every man.

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.

To love means to be in a state of perpetual becoming.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

Hope has two beautiful daughters: anger and courage.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

The measure of love is to love without measure.

Pray as though everything depended on God; work as though everything depended on you.

Understanding is the reward of faith; therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

Our hearts are restless until they rest in You.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

What we love determines what we seek.

Time heals all wounds, but it does not erase scars.

Beware of the man of a single book.

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

Love is the beauty of the soul.

You are within, but I cannot see you; I can feel you, but not perceive you.

There is nothing more effective than love, and nothing greater than freedom.

Evil is the absence of good.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze.

We must place our trust in the Lord, not on what the world offers.

A Christian should be an alleluia from head to foot.

You cannot ask what you are not ready to receive.

The heart of man is narrower than the heart of God.

Sin is an act of the will and not of necessity.

The soul is not composed of a single part, but of a multitude of qualities.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

When the body is healed, the soul grows stronger.

He who loves is not the one who loves, but rather the one who is loved.

In every human being, there burns the flame of possibility.

There is no greater sadness than to remember happiness in the day of sorrow.

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

Happiness is to be found in the pursuit of virtue.

Let us never forget that wounds require healing.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

Humanity is not perfect, but love is the path to perfection.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Knowledge of truth is a path paved with love.

Every man has the right to pursue their own happiness.

God writes straight with crooked lines.

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