Saint Augustine Quotes About Charity

Quotes about: Charity

• Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspiring, Philosophical, Justice

  "Majority of one". Book by Sydney J. Harris, p. 283, 1957.

• Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Catholic, Needs

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

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Christian, Law

• In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

  Saint Augustine

  Attitude, Unity, Liberty

• You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Charity

• Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all. Thus a man supported by faith, hope, and charity, with an unshaken hold upon them does not need the scriptures. . . And many live by these three things in solitude without books.

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Men, Thinking

  "People of the book" by Richard Harries, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2007.

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

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Soul, Charity

• I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with the words of the Gospel and they received it without pretence on their part and with some degree of faith. However, it would not avail them for their spiritual salvation if they were lacking in that charity by which they might be implanted in the Catholic Church.

  Saint Augustine

  Spiritual, Long, Catholic

• The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

  Saint Augustine

  Taken, Perfect, Soul

• Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspiration, Men, Arrogance

• Charity is the root of all good works.

  Saint Augustine

  Roots, Charity, Good Work

  Saint Augustine (1992). “Sermons 148-183 on the New Testament”, p.310, New City Press

• The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.

  Saint Augustine

  Running, Love Is, Goal

• 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

  Faith, Inspiration, Unity

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