Top 11 Augustine Quotes

The measure of love is to love without measure. - attributed to Saint Augustine

The measure of love is to love without measure. - attributed to Saint Augustine

Cassandra Clare

Love Is, Saint, Augustine

Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.514, Simon and Schuster

Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.

Martin Luther

Teacher, Augustine, Judgment

Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Word and sacrament”

Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?

Mary Oliver

Worry, Augustine

FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Oct 31, 2016

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

Colin S. Smith

Saint, Augustine, Used

Colin S. Smith (2016). “The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life: Finding Freedom in God's Commands”, p.24, Moody Publishers

It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed (Aquinas).

Sam Harris

Religion, Church, Augustine

"Letter to a Christian Nation". Book by Sam Harris, 2006.

St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as a science textbook. It was intended as a description of who God was, who we are and what our relationship is supposed to be with God.

Richard Dawkins

Textbooks, Who We Are, Augustine

Source: inters.org

Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God.

Philip Yancey

Effort, Grace, Augustine

Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.71, Harper Collins

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

Pat Robertson

Heart, Saint, Augustine

"Conversations with Michael Eisner", www.nbcnews.com. June 20, 2006.

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

Marguerite Young

Saint, Augustine, Has Beens

I am convinced with Plato , with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin , and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and every smallest portion of it, exactly fulfils the purpose for which Almighty God designed it.

James Anthony Froude

Plato, Purpose, Augustine

James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.8