Saint Augustine Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

  Saint Augustine

  Peace, War, Men

  "Defeating Militant Islamist Ideology" by Austin Bay, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 22, 2010.

• You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Enemy, Saint

• 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

• AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

  Saint Augustine

  Father, Son, Kissing

• What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

• Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Brother, Men

  "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. 436, 1962.

• Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

  Saint Augustine

  Thinking, Vanity, Imagination

• Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Eye, Soul

  Saint Augustine (2014). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.4, Open Road Media

• Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

  Saint Augustine

  Fighting, Enemy

• You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

  Saint Augustine

  Hurt, Self Love, Enemy

• Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Art, Men

• Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds that the Spirit of the Lord, who wrought miracles through him, had bidden him to do so. But, apart from such men excepted by the command of a just law in general or of God, the very Source of justice, in a special case, any one who kills a human being, himself or another, is guilty of murder.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Law, Justice

  Saint Augustine (2008). “The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)”, p.54, CUA Press

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