Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Saint Augustine Quotes
SpiritualityPurityResilience The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
ResponsibilityConnectionFocusHelping Others Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
ConfessionRedemptionGoodnessNew Beginnings The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
GoodnessCharacterPerspective If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
CreationPurposePeaceFaith Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
ResentmentSelf-DestructionLetting Go Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Guardian AngelsDivine GuidanceHopeProtection We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
HappinessDesireSelf-Sabotage Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
DesirePrayerPerseverance The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
UnderstandingLearningKnowledgeMeaning If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
ExperienceActionLearningApplication The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Bad CompanyInfluenceConsequenceCaution Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
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.
GuiltAdulteryIntentMorality Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
SufferingSinDivinitySacrifice God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
SoulSpiritLife The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
KindnessFreedomCharacter He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
IntrospectionSelf-DiscoverySpiritual SearchInner Truth I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
IntrospectionTruthEnlightenmentInner Vision My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
TimeKnowledgeUnderstanding 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.
EmptyingReceptivenessTransformationRenewal Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
PrayerWorkFaithResponsibility Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
BeliefTruthAuthenticitySelf If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
SpiritualityEnlightenmentGuidanceInner Peace O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
ReligionContinuityTruthHistory 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.
BeautyGood vs EvilMoralityEqualityDeception 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.
LoveCompassionServiceEmpathyPurpose What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Self-AwarenessInner BeautyMindfulnessHuman Potential 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.