All SAINT AUGUSTINE Quotes about “Charity”

“Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.”
“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.”
“Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.”
“In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.”
“Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.”
“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.”
“You cannot attain to charity except through humility.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Charity is the root of all good works.”

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