- “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” (Confessions, I, 1)
- “Love, and do what you will.” (Homily on 1 John 7, 8)
- “Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
- “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
- “Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
- “Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
- “Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.” (Sermon 43, 7, 9)
- “The measure of love is to love without measure.”
- “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.”
- “God does not command impossibilities, but by commanding He instructs you to do what you can and to ask for what you cannot.”
- “Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with an embrace.”
- “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”
- “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”
- “Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
- “Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”
- “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.”
- “He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.”
- “The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”
- “God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.”
- “Love is the beauty of the soul.”
- “It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”
- “Grant what You command, and command what You will.” (Confessions, X, 29)
- “Bad times, hard times—this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: such as we are, such are the times.” (Sermon 80, 8)
- “Too late have I loved You, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, too late have I loved You!” (Confessions, X, 27)
- “Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure is, there is your heart; where your heart is, there is your happiness.”
- “God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.”
- “Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
- “Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.” (The City of God, XXI, 8)
- “There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”
- “Love the sinner, hate the sin.”
A note: A few of these (like #11, #12, #27, #29, #30) are widely attributed to Augustine but may not appear verbatim in his extant writings—they are paraphrased or traditional formulations of his thought. The rest are firmly grounded in his works.