The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters. Saint Augustine More Quotes by Saint Augustine More Quotes From Saint Augustine The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven. Saint Augustine our-worldsaintheaven Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe Saint Augustine orderbelieve The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience. Saint Augustine wickedsufferingexercise Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. Saint Augustine springlove-islife Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder. Saint Augustine doegivingchildren For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets. Saint Augustine starshumbleheart For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise. Saint Augustine slaveselfmen The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before. Saint Augustine true-religionchristian You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers. Saint Augustine saintprayerenemy In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden. Saint Augustine suicidalsuicidebook Love and do as you will. Saint Augustine love I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. Saint Augustine suspenseheartfall God is best known in not knowing him. Saint Augustine not-knowingknownknowing O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. Saint Augustine humorouswittyfunny There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it. Saint Augustine humilityhumbleheart 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. Saint Augustine lightsensualmind You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness. Saint Augustine goodnesslordneeds Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. Saint Augustine stainsguilttears For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind. Saint Augustine live-wellphilosophicalwells If you understood him, it would not be God. Saint Augustine christian-inspirationalunderstoodunderstanding
