Saint Augustine Quotes

Then I proceeded to Williamsburg, where I found all well. I went to the capitol where I sent for the wench to clean my room and when I came I kissed her and felt her, for which God forgive me.... About 10 o’clock I went to my lodgings. I had good health but wicked thoughts, God forgive me.

I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.

Sex is not the problem [Lust is]

A lot of us have developed a diet mentality toward lust. We really want to cut back on lust because we know its not healthy and it makes us feel bad. But like some rich, calorie-laden chocolate dessert, lust is just too tasty to resist completely. Surely God will understand if we break our diet and nibble a little lust now and then.

Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Lust is an appetite that needs to be regulated.

I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.

if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

The power of sexual attraction is a real thing.

God loves you just as much as He loves Jesus!

In love the other is important; in lust you are important

Dead or not, you must be bored with women telling you how you look like the hottest, most exotic wet dream they’ve ever had. No wonder the thought of you, grapes, and some scented massage oils crossed my mind – and if you drop that towel again, I’m going to need a cold shower.

God does love you and that, hopefully, you get to the point that you realize that having a relationship with God should be first and foremost in your life.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.