Inspirational Quotes by Augustine
“For I was astonished that other mortals lived, since he whom I loved, as if he would never die, was dead; and I wondered still more that I, who was to him a second self, could live when he was dead. Well did one say of his friend, Thou half of my soul, for I felt that my soul and his soul were but one soul in two bodies; and, consequently, my life was a horror to me, because I would not live in half. And therefore, perchance, was I afraid to die, lest he should die wholly whom I had so greatly loved.”
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“It would have been more profitable to love the sun in the sky, which at least our eyes perceive truly, than those chimeras offered to a mind that had been led astray through its eyes.”
― Augustine ,
from Confessions
“O man, that which My Scripture saith, I say: and yet doth that speak in time; but time has no relation to My Word; because My Word exists in equal eternity with Myself. So the things which ye see through My Spirit, I see; like as what ye speak by My Spirit, I speak. And so when ye see those things in time, I see them not in time; as when ye speak in time, I speak them not in time.”
“Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, and inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good!”
― Augustine ,
from Confessions
“La soberbia remeda a la excelencia, siendo así que sólo tú eres excelso y, la ambición busca los honores y la gloria, cuando sólo tú eres glorioso y merecedor de eternas alabanzas.”
― Augustine ,
“the poverty of human intelligence has plenty to say, for inquiry employs more words than the discovery of the solution;”
― Augustine ,
from Confessions
“See, those things go their way that others may succeed them, and that a whole may exist comprised of all its parts, though a lowly whole indeed. "But I," says the Word of God, "shall I depart to any place?" Fix your dwelling there, my soul, lay up there for safe-keeping whatever you have thence received, if only because you are weary of deceits.”
― Augustine ,
from Confessions
“This only I know, that woe is me except in Thee: not only without but within myself also; and all abundance, which is not my God, is emptiness to me.”
“El que no tiene mujer se preocupa de las cosas de Dios y de cómo agradarle; pero el que está unido en matrimonio se preocupa de las cosas del mundo y de cómo agradar a su mujer" (1Co 7, 28.32.33).”
― Augustine ,
“Dirijo-me para as planícies e os vastos palácios da memória, onde estão tesouros de inumeráveis imagens veiculadas por toda a espécie de coisas que se sentiram. Aí está escondido também tudo aquilo que pensamos, quer aumentando, quer diminuindo, quer variando de qualquer modo que seja as coisas que os sentidos atingiram, e ainda tudo aquilo que lhe tenha sido confiado, e nela depositado, e que o esquecimento ainda não absorveu nem sepultou. Quando aí estou, peço que me seja apresentado aquilo que quero.”
― Augustine ,
from Confissões
“Let not the proud speak evil of me; because I meditate on my ransom,”
“O Lord our God, under the covering of your wings (Exod. 19: 4) we set our hope. Protect us and bear us up. It is you who will carry us; you will bear us up from our infancy until old age (Isa. 46: 4). When you are our firm support, then it is firm indeed. But when our support rests on our own strength, it is infirmity. Our good is life with you for ever, and because we turned away from that, we became twisted. Let us now return to you that we may not be overturned. Our good is life with you and suffers no deficiency (Ps. 101: 28); for you yourself are that good. We have no fear that there is no home to which we may return because we fell from it. During our absence our house suffers no ruin; it is your eternity.”
― Augustine ,
from Confessions
“For you have imposed order, and so it is that the punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.”
― Augustine ,
from Confessions
“While therefore each one of us is trying to understand in the sacred writings what the writer meant by them, what harm if one accepts a meaning which You, Light of all true minds, show him to be in itself a true meaning, even if the author we are reading did not actually mean that by it: since his meaning also, though different from mine, is true?”
― Augustine ,
from Confessions
“The Incarnate Word has been spoken. It calls the soul back to its place of peace that cannot be disturbed and love that will never be disappointed.”
“Porque más vencido es el enemigo en aquel a quien más tiene preso y por cuyo medio tiene a otros muchos presos;”
― Augustine ,
“Y si todas estas cosas que de Cristo se dicen fueran falsas, todo lo demás naufragaría en la mentira y no quedaría en los sagrados Libros ninguna esperanza de salvación para el género humano.”
― Augustine ,
“What therefore have I to do with men that they should hear my confessions, as if it were they who would cure all that is evil in me?9 Men are a race curious to know of other men’s lives, but slothful to correct their own.”
― Augustine ,
from Confessions
“The promise of satisfaction in worldly loves is an enduring lie that moves the soul to unfaithfulness from its proper lover.”
“Y la ambición, ¿qué busca, sino honores y gloria, siendo tú el único sobre todas las cosas digno de ser honrado y glorificado eternamente?”
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Aurelius Augustinus - more commonly "St. Augustine of Hippo," or simply "Augustine" - was a philosopher and theologian, and one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity. He framed the concepts of original sin and just war. Augustine was one of the most prolific Latin authors in terms of surviving works, and the list of his works consists of more than a hundred separate titles.
Augustine took the view that the Biblical text should not be interpreted literally if it contradicts what we know from science and our God-given reason. Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider him to be one of the theological fathers of Reformation teaching on salvation and divine grace.