Saint Augustine Quotes

Augustine of Hippo ( November 13, 354 – August 28, 430), was Bishop of Hippo Regius (present-day Annaba, Algeria). Saint Augustine was a Latin philosopher and theologian from Roman Africa. St Augustine writings were very influential in the development of Western Christianity. Saint Augustine is known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed.
Selected Quotes of Saint Augustine are:

1. An unjust law is no law at all.
    
2. Love the sinner and hate the sin.
    
3. Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
    
4. It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
    
5. Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
    
6. Patience is the companion of wisdom.
    
7. Anger is a weed; hate is the tree.
    
8. What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
    
9. Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.
    
10. You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.
     
11. Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
     
12. People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.