Inspirational Quotes by Augustine

“243. “Faith seeks, understanding finds. This is why the prophet says, ‘Unless you believe, you will not understand’.[Isaiah 7:9]”~”

“Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.”

“What is a valley of tears? He was scourged, covered with spittle, crowned with thorns, nailed to the cross. From this valley of tears you must ascend. But ascend where? ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God‘ (Jn 1:1). For He Himself, the ‘Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.’ Abiding in Himself, He descended to you. He descended to you so as to become for you a valley of tears; He abode in Himself so as to be for you a mountain of ascent. And ‘In the days to come,’ said Isaiah, ‘the mountain of the Lord shall tower above the hills’ (Is 2:2). It is there we must ascend.”

“But in their turn, before the hour comes, let them listen also to what the Apostle says to them: ‘You were once darkness, and now youa re light in the Lord’ (Eph 5:8). Let them awaken according to the admonition of our Psalm. Already the mountains are lightened, why then sleep? ‘Let them lift their eyes toward the mountains whence help will come to them’ (Ps 120:1). What does it mean to say that the mountains are already lightened? Already there has arisen the Sun of Justice, already the Apostles have preached the Gospel, preached the Holy Scriptures, all the Mysteries have been laid open, the veil has been rent, the secret of the temple has been revealed; let them finally lift their eyes toward the mountain whence help will come to them.”

“I write because I've made progress and I make progress because I write." (i.e. I write as I learn and I learn as I write) St. Augustine (354 - 430 A.D.)”

“It is indeed a song of steps. And as I have often said to you, these steps are not made to descend but to ascend. The questioner wishes then to ascend; and where does he wish to ascend if not to heaven? What does this mean—to ascend to heaven? Does he wish to ascend so as to be in the heavens with the sun, the moon, and the stars? Far from that! But there is in heaven an eternal Jerusalem where the angels, our co-citizens, are. From these co-citizens we on earth are estranged. In this exile we sigh; in the city we shall have joy.”

“The throne of wisdom is the soul of the righteous, that is, wisdom sits on the soul of the righteous as on her chair, as on her throne, and there judges whatever she judges.”

“The soul is the life whereby we are joined into the body.”

“Amor meus pondus meum”

“I write because I've made progress and I make progress because I write." (I write as I learn and I learn as I write) St. Augustine (354 - 430 A.D.)”

“Ah, God, my God, what wretchedness I suffered in that world, and how I trifled with! -St. Augustine on school”

“But perhaps there are insensitive hearts, still incapable of receiving this Light because the weight of their sins prevents them from seeing it. Let them not imagine that they Light is absent because they do not see it, for on account of their sins they are in darkness. ‘And the Light shone in the darkness, and the darkness understood it not’ (Jn 1:5). Therefore, Brothers, like the blind man exposed to the sun, the sun being present to him but he being absent from the sun, so the insensitive one, the sinner, the impious has a blind heart.”

“But if you do not wish to die of thirst in the desert, drink charity. This is the fountain the Lord has willed to place here, lest we faint on the way, and we shall drink it more abundantly when we come to the Fatherland.”

“Sero te amavi, pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova, sero te amavi!”

“I write because I've made progress and I make progress because I write." (i.e. I write as I learn and I learn as I write) St. Augustine of Hippo (354 - 430 A.D.)”

“Hence, you see your faith, you see your doubt, you see your desire and will to learn, and when you are induced by divine authority to believe what you do not see, you see at one that you believe these things; you analyze and discern all this.”

“Vatru u drugima može zapaliti samo onaj tko sam izgara.”

“Fecisti nos ad te, Domine, et inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te”

“I write because I've made progress and I make progress because I write. (i.e. I write as I learn and I learn as I write) St. Augustine of Hippo (354 - 430 A.D.)”

“Tolle Lege - Take Up and Read!”