Saint Augustine Giving Quotations

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is to say, if they use freely and cheerfully what they have received, He will add to and perfect His gifts.

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

Give what You command and command what You will.

Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.

He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.

The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.

Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.

God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

"Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happiness.

Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.

Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

God gives where he finds empty hands.

Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.

We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.

We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.