Saint Augustine
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.Collection: Easter
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.Collection: Jealousy
Patience is the companion of wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
He that is jealous is not in love.Collection: Jealousy
Love, and do what you like.Collection: Love
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.Collection: God
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.Collection: Good
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Sympathy
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.Collection: Forgiveness
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.Collection: 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.Collection: 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.Collection: Great
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.Collection: Experience
Punishment is justice for the unjust.Collection: Legal
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.Collection: Art
Love is the beauty of the soul.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Time
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Religion
The purpose of all wars, is peace.Collection: Peace
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.Collection: Nature
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.Collection: God
God is best known in not knowing him.Collection: God
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.Collection: God
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.Collection: Time
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.Collection: Legal
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.Collection: 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.Collection: Experience
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.Collection: Faith
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.Collection: Funny
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.Collection: Men
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.Collection: Friendship
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.Collection: God
Custom is second nature.Collection: Nature
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.Collection: Happiness
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.Collection: Good
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.Collection: Life
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.Collection: Travel
The greatest evil is physical pain.Collection: Medical
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?Collection: Government
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.Collection: Men
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.Collection: Love
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.Collection: Faith
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.Collection: Past
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.Collection: Forever
A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.Collection: Christian
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.Collection: Lions
If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.Collection: Prayer
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.Collection: Life