Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine Quotes about God
Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.
Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.
In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this thing or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
We speak, but it is God who teaches.
Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation. He does not want to be holy; he only wants to seem to be holy. He is more concerned with his reputation for righteousness than about actually becoming righteous. The approbation of men matters more to him than the approval of God.
Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.
He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain.
Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.
God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?
Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.
Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.