What is going on in our minds, then, that we should be more highly delighted at finding cherished objects, or having them restored to us, than if we had always kept them safe?
For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.
My soul is like a house, small for you to enter, but I pray you to enlarge it. It is in ruins, but I ask you to remake it. It contains much that you will not be pleased to see: this I know and do not...
Some things are to be enjoyed, others to be used, and there are others to be enjoyed and used.
Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its sprea...
The bodies of irrational animals are bent toward the ground, whereas man was made to walk erect with his eyes on heaven, as though to remind him to keep his thoughts on things above.
We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
. . I would learn to discern and distinguish the difference between presumption and confession, between those who see what the goal is but not how to get there and those who see the way which leads to...
It is no less impossible for us not to taste as bitter the death of those whose life for us was such a source of sweetness.
But it must not be supposed that folly is as powerful as truth, just because it can, if it likes, shout louder and longer than truth.
Do not abandon what You have begun in me, but go on to perfect all that remains unfinished.
For a prohibition always increases an illicit desire so long as the love of and joy in holiness is too weak to conquer the inclination to sin...
For instantly, as the sentence ended, there was infused in my heart something like the light of full certainty and all the gloom of doubt vanished away.
Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had...
Greed is not a defect in the gold that is desired but in the man who loves it perversely by falling from justice which he ought to esteem as incomparably superior to gold; nor is lust a defect in bodi...
It is this Good which we are commanded to love with our whole heart, with our whole mind, and with all our strength. It is toward this Good that we should be led by those who love us, and toward this...
Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hop...
My questioning was my attentive spirit,and their reply, their beauty.
No man can be a good bishop if he loves his title but not his task.
O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, . Say it so that I can hear it. My heart is listening, Lord; open the ears of my heard and say to my soul, . Let me run toward this voice and...
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