TOP 10 Quotes of Saint Augustine, who Converted from Sin and became a Bishop then Doctor of the Church, to Inspire Your Life!

Saint Augustine of Hippo, born in Africa, was a convert who became a bishop and doctor of the Catholic Church. He led a life of sin and then was converted after his mother Saint Monica prayed 17 years for him. Here are some of his top quotes to inspire you! 

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

2. “He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.”
3. “Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
4. “This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”

5. "To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek Him is the greatest adventure; to find Him, the greatest human achievement."
6. “You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.”
7. “Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.”
8. “Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
9. "A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps."
10. "There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future."
Bonus: "Late have I love you, O beauty so ancient yet ever new! Late
have I loved you! Behold, you were within and I was out abroad,
searching there for you. Deformed, I plunged into the fair forms
that you had made. You were with me, but I was not with you. I
was held back far from you by things, which would not themselves
be if they were not in you. You called, you shouted, and you burst
open my deafness. You flashed, you shone in radiance, and you
drove away my blindness. You breathed forth your fragrance, and I
drew my breath and sighed for you. I tasted, and now I hunger and
thirst. You touched me, and I burned for your peace." Book 10, chapter 27