“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
Beauty
“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”
TimeAll Quotes by Saint Augustine
“He that is jealous is not in love.”
Jealousy“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
Happiness“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.”
Anger“It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.”
Men“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
God“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”
Good“The purpose of all wars, is peace.”
Peace“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
Faith“Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.”
Beauty“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
Nature“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”
Love“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”
God“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”
Art“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.”
Men“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.”
God“Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.”
Great“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
Beauty“Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.”
Great“O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.”
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