To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
SAINT AUGUSTINETo fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
SAINT AUGUSTINEI was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
SAINT AUGUSTINELove is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe speak, but it is God who teaches.
SAINT AUGUSTINEForgiveness is the remission of sins.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf 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.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIf God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod gives where he finds empty hands.
SAINT AUGUSTINETwo criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
SAINT AUGUSTINETrust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThere is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
SAINT AUGUSTINELove has reasons that reason knows not.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWhere your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
SAINT AUGUSTINE