Saint Augustine Quotes

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.

If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.

God gives where he finds empty hands.