augustine Quotes

“Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.”

“Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.”

“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.”

“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.”

“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.”

“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”

“Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.”

“Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.”

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

“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”