Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Saint Augustine Quotes
BalanceFoundationGrowthHumilityPerseverance Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
ExperienceGrowthKnowledgePerspectiveWisdom The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
ForgivenessRedemptionSalvation Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
EthicsHappinessIntegrityIntentional LivingSpiritual Pursuit To seek the highest good is to live well.
ConsequenceDivine WisdomRedemptionToleranceTransformation God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
DivinitySacrificeSinSuffering God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
BalanceFaithGrowthKnowledgeProcess Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
BeautyDeceptionEqualityGood vs EvilMorality Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
KnowledgeTimeUnderstanding What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Humility Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
ConsequenceFateMoralitySelf-ControlTemptation To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
FoundationGrowthHumilityPerfectionSelf-Actualization Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
CorruptionJusticeSovereigntyTyranny In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
CommunicationDiscernmentTruth A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Conflict ResolutionFriendshipJudgmentRelationshipTrust If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
Human PotentialInner BeautyMindfulnessSelf-awareness Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
ContinuityHistoryReligionTruth The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
AuthorityDesireFulfillmentInner StrengthIntention Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.