Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new! — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it. — Saint Augustine Copy Share
“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.” — Saint Augustine Copy Share
Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself. — Saint Augustine Copy Share
