83 quotes
Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)
“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
"In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me."
on Love
"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement."
"No one should be ashamed to admit that they do not know what they do not know, in case while feigning knowledge, they come to deserve to never know."
on Wisdom
"Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of."
on Psychology
"Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?"
on Justice
"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
on Faith
"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others."
"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."
on Ethics
"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."
on Time
"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."
"If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself."
"Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all."
"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."
"For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?"
"If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God."
on Philosophy
"Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."
on Travel
"it is a higher glory... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war."
on Courage
"For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity."
"Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace."
