Saint Augustine

For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.

Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.

No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.

Modo, et modo, non habebent modum._x000D_ _x000D_ By-and-by has no end.

So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.

When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

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, does not yet understand them as he ought.