Morning Coffee: 7 AMAZING St. Augustine Quotes
We'll take a look at 7 beautiful quotes from St Augustine (6 from the Confessions) which we'll be beginning to study this Friday.
“You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
“You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
“O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can hear it. My heart is listening, Lord; open the ears of my heard and say to my soul, I am your salvation. Let me run toward this voice and seize hold of you. Do not hide your face from me: let me die so that I may see it, for not to see it would be death to me indeed.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
“The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
“And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, yet pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
“The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"I should not believe the gospel except as moved by the authority of the Catholic Church." — St. Augustine of Hippo, Against the Fundamental Epistle of Manichaeus