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Quotes from Saint Augustine

Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .
~ Saint Augustine
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.
~ Saint Augustine
Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love.
~ Saint Augustine
Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.
~ Saint Augustine
I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
~ Saint Augustine
I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
~ Saint Augustine
War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.
~ Saint Augustine
Love and do as you will.
~ Saint Augustine
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
~ Saint Augustine
O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by.
~ Saint Augustine
Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.
~ Saint Augustine
I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.
~ Saint Augustine
Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)
~ Saint Augustine
We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.
~ Saint Augustine
There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.
~ Saint Augustine
You are what you love.
~ Saint Augustine
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
~ Saint Augustine
Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.
~ Saint Augustine
Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.
~ Saint Augustine
My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.
~ Saint Augustine
Hear the other side.
~ Saint Augustine
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
~ Saint Augustine
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
~ Saint Augustine
We should never use the truth to wound.
~ Saint Augustine