858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

You don’t love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul’s beauty.

If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it’s height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

The world’s verdict is conclusive.

He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God’s will.

The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God’s word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God’s word.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.