St. Augustine

"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."

- St. Augustine

"It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds."

- St. Augustine

"As they were looking on, so we too gaze on his wounds as he hangs. We see his blood as he dies. We see the price offered by the redeemer, touch the scars of his resurrection. He bows his head, as if to kiss you. His heart is made bare open, as it were, in love to you. His arms are extended that he may embrace you. His whole body is displayed for your redemption. Ponder how great these things are. Let all this be rightly weighed in your mind: as he was once fixed to the cross in every part of his body for you, so he may now be fixed in every part of your soul."

- St. 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 the misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

- St. Augustine

"Nothing so clearly discovers a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother."

- St. Augustine

"The death of the Lord our God should not be a cause of shame for us; rather, it should be our greatest hope, our greatest glory. In taking upon himself the death that he found in us, he has most faithfully promised to give us life in him, such as we cannot have of ourselves."

- St. Augustine

"The passion of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is the hope of glory and a lesson in patience. What may not the hearts of believers promise themselves as the gift of God’s grace, when for their sake God’s only Son, co-eternal with the Father, was not content only to be born as man from human stock but even died at the hands of the men he had created?"

- St. 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."

- St. Augustine

"Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it. Right is right, even if no one is doing it."

- St. Augustine

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

- St. Augustine

"We do not seek peace in order to be at war, but we go to war that we may have peace. Be peaceful, therefore, in warring, so that you may vanquish those whom you war against, and bring them to the prosperity of peace."

- St. Augustine

"The Bible is shallow enough for a child not to drown, yet deep enough for an elephant to swim."

- St. Augustine

"The good angels hold cheap all that knowledge of material and transitory things which the demons are so proud of possessing -- not that they are ignorant of these things, but because of the love of God, whereby they are sanctified, is very dear to them, and because, in comparison of that not merely immaterial but also unchangeable and ineffable beauty, with the holy love of which they are inflamed, they despise all things which are beneath it, and all that is not it, that they may with every good thing that is in them enjoy that good which is the source of their goodness."

- St. Augustine

"This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God."

- St. Augustine

"And he departed from our sight and we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here."

- St. Augustine

"God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering."

- St. Augustine

"He died, but he vanquished death; in himself he put an end to what we feared; he took it upon himself and he vanquished it, as a mighty hunter he captured and slew the lion."

- St. Augustine

"Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God's thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him."

- St. Augustine

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

- St. Augustine

"What do you possess if you possess not God?"

- St. Augustine

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."

- St. Augustine

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel only read a page."

- St. Augustine

"Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. Right is right even if no one is doing it."

- St. Augustine