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Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Saint Augustine
Love, God, Jesus

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

Saint Augustine
Love, Life, Sympathy
"Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Saint Augustine
Love, Art, Passion

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Saint Augustine
Love, Beauty, Wedding
"The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy: Daily Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers". Book by Gregory Bergman, 2004.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

Saint Augustine
Love, Smile, Break Up

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Saint Augustine
Love, Faith, God

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

Saint Augustine
Love, God, Spiritual

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

Saint Augustine
Love, Prayer, Light

That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

Saint Augustine
Love, Forgiveness, Hate

Love is ever new because it never groweth old.

Saint Augustine
Love, Love Is
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.4543, Aeterna Press

Whole prayer is nothing but love.

Saint Augustine
Love, Prayer, Whole

He that is jealous is not in love.

Saint Augustine
Love, Philosophical, Jealous

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Saint Augustine
Love, Romantic, Beauty
"The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy: Daily Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers". Book by Gregory Bergman, 2004.

Love and do as you will.

Saint Augustine
Love

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

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Saint Augustine
Love, Beauty, Ancient
Saint Augustine (2003). “Confessions”, Penguin UK

If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.

Saint Augustine
Love, Soul, Body
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.10514, Aeterna Press

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.

Saint Augustine
Love
"Confessions". Book by Augustine. Book 3, 397.

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

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

Saint Augustine
Love, War, Enmity

Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

Saint Augustine
Love
"On the Mystical Body of Christ". "The Whole Christ: The Historical Development of the Doctrine of the Mystical Body in Scripture and Tradition". Book by Emile Mersch, p. 438, 1962.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Saint Augustine
Love, Jealousy, Anger

My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.

Saint Augustine
Love, Moving, Love Is

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