Augustine of Hippo

Quotes from

Augustine of Hippo


“O Lord, all my hope is based on your great mercy.”

“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”

“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”

“I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.”

“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”

“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”

“Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.”

“Love is the beauty of the soul.”

“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”