Saint Augustine

Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot

Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

God is best known in not knowing him.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.