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A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Heart, Thinking

If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

Saint Augustine
Prayer, Heart, Desire

Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Humble, Fire
"Why Do Christians Fast? Three Reasons Explained by St. Thomas Aquinas" by Gretchen Filz, www.catholiccompany.com. March 23, 2017.

Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Restless, Restless Heart
Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.4, OUP Oxford

One loving heart sets another on fire.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Fire

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Dark, Dwelling

Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Desire, Satisfied

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

Saint Augustine
Happiness, Heart, Optimism

O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can hear it. My heart is listening, Lord; open the ears of my heart and say to my soul, I am your salvation. Let me run toward this voice and seize hold of you. Do not hide your face from me: let me die so that I may see it, for not to see it would be death to me indeed.

Saint Augustine
Running, Heart, Voice
"Prayers from the Confessions".

To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.

Saint Augustine
Wisdom, Heart, Justice

What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

Saint Augustine
Heart, People, Grace
Saint Augustine (2008). “The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)”, p.478, CUA Press

Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Eye, May

Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Love Is, Voice

The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Men, Memorial

For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets.

Saint Augustine
Stars, Heart, Humble
Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.115

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

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

Saint Augustine
Philosophical, Heart, Quiet

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

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

There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.

Saint Augustine
Humble, Humility, Heart
"The Confessions".

Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when I was not with Thee. Thou didst call, and cry, and burst my deafness. Thou didst gleam, and glow, and dispell my blindness. Thou didst touch me, and I burned for Thy peace. For Thyself Thou hast made us, and restless our hearts until in Thee they find their ease. Late have I loved Thee, Thou Beauty ever old and ever new. Thou hast burst my bonds asunder; unto Thee will I offer up an offering of praise.

Saint Augustine
Love, Peace, Heart

Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'

Saint Augustine
Blessed, Heart, Men

To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

Saint Augustine
Heart, Men, Flames

My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

Saint Augustine
Love, Heart, Heaven
Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.183, Oxford Paperbacks

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