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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.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Saint Augustine

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

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

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Saint Augustine

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Saint Augustine

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Saint Augustine

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

Saint Augustine

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

Saint Augustine

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Saint Augustine

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

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

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

Saint Augustine

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

Saint Augustine

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Saint Augustine

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

Saint Augustine

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

Saint Augustine

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

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

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

Saint Augustine

Love, and do what you like.

Saint Augustine

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

Saint Augustine

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Saint Augustine

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Saint Augustine

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Saint Augustine

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Saint Augustine

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Saint Augustine

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Saint Augustine

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Saint Augustine

The verdict of the world is conclusive.

Saint Augustine

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

Saint Augustine

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

Saint Augustine

Hear the other side.

Saint Augustine

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Saint Augustine