Quotes from St. Augustine
One can't reach the Truth but through Love.
- St. Augustine
God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
- St. Augustine
God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!
- St. Augustine
You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.
- St. Augustine
I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.
- St. Augustine
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
- St. Augustine
You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.
- St. Augustine
Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.
- St. Augustine
Love has reasons that reason knows not.
- St. Augustine
We come to God by love and not by navigation.
- St. Augustine
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
- St. Augustine
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
- St. Augustine