“ Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times. St. Augustine of Hippo
“ Why, then, do I set before You an ordered account of so many things? it's certainly not through me that You know them. But I'm stirring up love for You in myself and in those who read this so that we… St. Augustine of Hippo
“ Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law. St. Augustine of Hippo
“ Do they desire to join me in thanksgiving when they hear how, by your gift, I have come close to you, and do they pray for me when they hear how I am held back by my own weight? ...A brotherly mind wi… St. Augustine of Hippo
“ The soul is torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity. St. Augustine of Hippo
“ I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance – You oh God – towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and… St. Augustine of Hippo
“ There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will.() St. Augustine of Hippo
“ Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of. St. Augustine of Hippo
“ Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence. St. Augustine of Hippo
“ The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them. St. Augustine of Hippo
“ I heard Your voice from on high. I am the food of the fully grown. Grow and you will feed on me. And you will not change Me into you, like the food of flesh eats. But you will be changed into Me. St. Augustine of Hippo
“ How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but et… St. Augustine of Hippo
“ The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. St. Augustine of Hippo
“ The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its e… St. Augustine of Hippo
“ I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people… St. Augustine of Hippo
“ There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that m… St. Augustine of Hippo
“ Ignorance and stupidity are given the names of simplicity and innocence...Idleness appears as desire for a quiet life. St. Augustine of Hippo
“ You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run. St. Augustine of Hippo
“ Anyone who does not love Him Who made man has not learned to love man aright. St. Augustine of Hippo
