Augustine of Hippo354–430Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
- III, 1
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul’s beauty.
Ninth Homily, Paragraph 9, as translated by Boniface Ramsey (2008) Augustinian Heritage Institute- X, 27, as translated in Theology and Discovery: Essays in honor of Karl Rahner, S.J. (1980) edited by William J. Kelly
- Opera Omnia, Vol II. Col. 962, letter 211
