Quotes from Saint Augustine

Love God, and do what you like.

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

One can't reach the Truth but through Love.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!

You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.

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

You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

Love has reasons that reason knows not.

We come to God by love and not by navigation.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

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.

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

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

Anger is a weed; hate is a tree

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

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.