Saint Augustine

“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”

— Saint Augustine

“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.”

— Saint Augustine

“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.”

— Saint Augustine

“God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.”

— Saint Augustine

“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”

— Saint Augustine

“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”

— Saint Augustine

“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.”

— Saint Augustine

“Love is the beauty of the soul.”

— Saint Augustine

“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.”

— Saint Augustine

“Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”

— Saint Augustine

“He that is jealous is not in love.”

— Saint Augustine

“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”

— Saint Augustine

“O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.”

— Saint Augustine

“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.”

— Saint Augustine

“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”

— Saint Augustine

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

— Saint Augustine

“Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.”

— Saint Augustine

“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”

— Saint Augustine

“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”

— Saint Augustine

“The purpose of all wars, is peace.”

— Saint Augustine