All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me. Saint Augustine More Quotes by Saint Augustine More Quotes From Saint Augustine A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing. Saint Augustine willing persons belief I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares. Saint Augustine love Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent. Saint Augustine soul purity truth Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face. Saint Augustine love-you love-is mean You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not. Saint Augustine self-love hurt enemy We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. Saint Augustine philosophical angel character What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. Saint Augustine achievement personality success The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters. Saint Augustine dove quarrels hate To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. Saint Augustine forsaken sins-not philosophical Doubt is but another element of faith. Saint Augustine elements faith doubt God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist. Saint Augustine omnipotence riches giving I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him. Saint Augustine missing friendship long It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith of those presenting him or ministering to him,' but, 'Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit.' The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam. Saint Augustine parent water men People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. Saint Augustine faith inspirational life Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive. Saint Augustine yield christian bible We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. Saint Augustine ladders vices ifs God gives where he finds empty hands. Saint Augustine empty giving hands Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire. Saint Augustine disposition temperance desire Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God. Saint Augustine cities self two Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe. Saint Augustine safe seems christ
