Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr.
More Quotes from Saint Augustine:
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
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Saint Augustine
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
Saint Augustine
You aspire to great things Begin with little ones.
Saint Augustine
There is no possible source of evil except good.
Saint Augustine
Love, and do what you like.
Saint Augustine
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