Quotes by Saint Augustine

“The measure of love is to love without measure.”

“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....”

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

“He that is jealous is not in love.”

“Love is the beauty of the soul.”

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

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

“Custom is second nature.”

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”

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

“God is best known in not knowing him.”

“I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.”

“The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.”

“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...”