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Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

Saint Augustine
Inspirational, Life, Positive

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

Saint Augustine
Mother, Father, Church

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

Saint Augustine
Life, Soul, Charity

God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

Saint Augustine
Faithful Servants, People, Giving

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

Saint Augustine
Easter, Heart, Sight
"Confessions".

Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to you own but correct your will to that of God. The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of being converted and of correcting your evil ways.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Mean, Evil

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

Saint Augustine
Truth, Honesty, Men

In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.

Saint Augustine
God, Lovely, Lovely Things

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

Saint Augustine
Beauty, Ancient
"Theology and Discovery: Essays in honor of Karl Rahner, S.J." edited by William J. Kelly, 1980.

I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.

Saint Augustine
Believe, Men, Heaven
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9, Aeterna Press

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

Saint Augustine
Philosophical, Heart, Quiet

In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.

Saint Augustine
Eye, Movement, Modesty

For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.

Saint Augustine
Catholic, Found
"The Confessions of St. Augustine".

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Saint Augustine
War, Catholic, Purpose

A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. My good points are instilled by you and are your gifts. My bad points are my faults and your judgements on them. Let them take heart from the one and regret the other. Let both praise and tears ascend in your sight from brotherly hearts, your censers. ...But you Lord...Make perfect my imperfections.

Saint Augustine
Regret, Heart, Sadness

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .

Saint Augustine
Real, Accomplishment, Grace

Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

Saint Augustine
Life, Spring, Love Is
Saint Augustine of Hippo, Aeterna Press “Homilies on the Gospel According to Saint John: And His First Epistle”, Aeterna Press

Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.

Saint Augustine
Wise, Powerful, Giving

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

Saint Augustine
Mind, Desire, Noble

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

Saint Augustine
Perfection, Imperfection, Function

Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

Saint Augustine
Philosophical, Wilting, Command
"The confessions of S. Augustine: A revised translation".

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

Saint Augustine
Spiritual, Heart, Answers

When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?

Saint Augustine
Cutting, Men, Sight

O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

Saint Augustine
Prayer, May, Lord

Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

Saint Augustine
Evil, Lust, God Love

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