Quotes from St. Augustine
The measure of love is to love without measuring.
- St. Augustine
We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.
- St. Augustine
And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?
- St. Augustine
Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
- St. Augustine
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
- St. Augustine
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
- St. Augustine
Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.
- St. Augustine
Love is ever new because it never groweth old.
- St. Augustine
Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.
- St. Augustine
There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.
- St. Augustine
Love God, and do what you like.
- St. Augustine
Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.
- St. Augustine