Saint Augustine Quotes

I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole.

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

Jesus made it clear that the most important thing in the world is our relationship to God and to others. When we achieve that, everything good will follow.

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

Your worst day with God is still better than your best day without Him.

No matter what I do on the baseball field, no matter how hard I try to be a good player, no matter how hard I try to be a good father or a good husband, I can never do enough. I can never be perfect in this world. But God's there to tell me that it's not what you do, it's whom you believe in and it's Him loving me.

Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God.

Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.

Do everything calmly and peacefully. Do as much as you can as well as you can. Strive to see God in all things without exception, and consent to His will joyously. Do everything for God, uniting yourself to him in word and deed. Walk very simply with the Cross of the Lord and be at peace with yourself.

The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.

We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

Nobody at any time is cut off from God.

God is the Source of real love, joy, peace, wisdom and everything else we all need to be the people He has created us to be.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

If I can find out God, then I shall find Him,If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly,Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me, A lamp in darkness.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'

If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.

In the context of the "great mystery" of Christ and of the Church, all are called to respond - as a bride - with the gift of their lives to the inexpressible gift of the love of Christ, who alone, as the Redeemer of the world, is the Church's Bridegroom.

Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.