The purpose of all wars, is peace. – Saint Augustine
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. – Saint Augustine
It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels. – Saint Augustine
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. – Saint Augustine
He that is jealous is not in love. – Saint Augustine
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. – Saint Augustine
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. – Saint Augustine
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. – Saint Augustine
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. – Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. – Saint Augustine
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. – Saint Augustine
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. – Saint Augustine
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. – Saint Augustine
Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. – Saint Augustine
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. – Saint Augustine
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
Love is the beauty of the soul. – Saint Augustine
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. – Saint Augustine
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. – Saint Augustine
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. – Saint Augustine
