Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know. — 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
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering,… — 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
Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things… — 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
