Saint Augustine

“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?”

“Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.”

“Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.”

“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”

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

“If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.”

“Love is the beauty of the soul.”

“I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.”

“He that is jealous is not in love.”

“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.”

“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.”

“O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.”

“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”

“O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.”

“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”

“God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.”

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

“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”

“Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.”

“The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.”

“My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.”