“ If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself. Augustine of Hippo
“ He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake. Augustine of Hippo
“ To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. Augustine of Hippo
“ Do not feel surprise at being schooled amid toil: you are being schooled for a wondrous destiny. Augustine of Hippo
“ O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. Augustine of Hippo
“ The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered the form which you had lost. Therefore he was deformed when he hung on the cross. But his deformity… Augustine of Hippo
“ All of nature, therefore, is good, since the Creator of all nature is supremely good. But nature is not supremely and immutably good as is the Creator of it. Thus the good in created things can be dim… Augustine of Hippo
“ The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19) Augustine of Hippo
“ Life is a misery, death an uncertainty. Suppose it steals suddenly upon me, in what state shall I leave this world? When can I learn what I have here neglected to learn? Or is it true that death will… Augustine of Hippo
“ Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, do… Augustine of Hippo
“ True inner righteousness does not judge according to custom but by the measure of the most perfect law of God Almighty by which the mores of various places and times were adapted to those places and t… Augustine of Hippo
“ The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell. Augustine of Hippo
“ And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to them, or are so stubbo… Augustine of Hippo
“ Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee. Augustine of Hippo
