We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout… — 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
I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write. — 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
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ...… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake… — 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
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
O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God; for He is the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
