Saint Augustine Good Quotations

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.

We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.

You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

Charity is the root of all good works.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse- the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.