What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the… — 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
I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new! — 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
