“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
Beauty
“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.”
LoveAll Quotes by Saint Augustine
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
Patience“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“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“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“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
Happiness“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”
God“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
Nature“He that is jealous is not in love.”
Jealousy“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”
Art“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“My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.”
Experience“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”
Good“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.”
God“O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.”
Funny“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
Faith“It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.”
Men“God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.”
God“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.”
Time“Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
Faith