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The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

Our hearts were made for You, O Lord, and they are restless until they rest in you." -St. Augustine of Hippo

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.

This experience sufficiently illuminates the truth that free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless,

The earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.

Embrace the love of God, and by love embrace God

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Habits, if not resisted, soon become necessity.

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

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

For this my good from them, was good for them.

Still, dust and ashes I am, allow me to speak before your mercy.

This only I know, that woe is me except in Thee: not only without but within myself also; and all abundance, which is not my God, is emptiness to me.

Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an Angel.

Man cannot believe unless he wishes to.

HE THAT LOVETH LITTLE PRAYETH LITTLE, HE THAT LOVETH MUCH PRAYETH MUCH.

The promise of satisfaction in worldly loves is an enduring lie that moves the soul to unfaithfulness from its proper lover. We

I know well enough what it is, provided that nobody asks me; but if I am asked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

Hence a 'bishop' who has set his heart on a position of eminence rather than an opportunity for service should realize that he is no bishop. So

What do I love when I love my God?

He who falls, falls by his own will; and he who stands, stands by God's will.

Ignorance and stupidity are given the names of simplicity and innocence ... Idleness appears as desire for a quiet life.

Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.

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

No longer was he the man who had joined the crowd; he was now one of the crowd he had joined, and a genuine companion of those who had led him there.

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

A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart. Nay, even idolatry is ample evidence of this fact.

I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me.

Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.

Indeed, the only cause of their [Rome] perishing was that they chose for their protectors gods condemned to perish.

As the flattery of friends corrupts, so often do the taunts of enemies instruct.

Lavish spending cloaks the dark side of generosity

I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

So too let him rejoice and delight in finding you who are beyond discovery rather than fail to find you by supposing you to be discoverable.

The world is a great book ... they who never stir from home read only a page.

219Take up and read, take up and read.

Why then should a man, who has done no wrong, do wrong to himself?

Miracles happen, not in opposition to Nature, but in opposition to what we know of Nature.

God has one Son without sin, but none without affliction.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

The measure of love is to love without measure.

Sin, but sin boldly.

For in our hope we are saved.

Oh! for Thy mercies' sake, tell me, O Lord my God, what Thou art unto me.

No eulogy is due to a man who simply does his duty and nothing more.

The peace of all things is the tranquillity of order.

Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

Take up and read, take up and read.

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

My sin grew sleek on my excesses.

I was still unteachable, being inflated with the novelty of heresy.

Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time ...

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn in yourself

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

Homer invented these fictions and attributed human powers to the gods; I wish he had attributed divine powers to us

Divides into three classes,
things to be enjoyed, things to be used, and things which use and enjoy.

The person who knows the truth knows it, and he who knows it knows eternity. Love knows it.

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

When men do what is displeasing to God, they perform their own will, not God's.

The weakness then of infant limbs, not its will, is its innocence.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

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

Being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies?

The soul is not moved to abandon higher things and love inferior things unless it wills to do so.

Thus it is that love is not without hope, hope is not without love, and neither hope nor love are without faith.

An unjust law is no law at all.

Why, therefore, do we delay to abandon our hopes of this world, and give ourselves wholly to seek after God and the blessed life? But

This disease of curiosity.

It is a higher glory ... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.

Salvator ambulado. (It is solved by walking.)

I know what it is, but when you ask me I don't.

He that is jealous is not in love.

He then goes on to show that love--the love of God for

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

The world is a book, and he who does not travel reads only a page.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.

Si nemo me queret, scio; si aliqui explicare velim, nescio.
"If no one asks me, I know. If I am asked to explain,I do not know".

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

And thus it is that in the same affliction the wicked detest God and blaspheme, while the good pray and praise.

The happy life is this - to rejoice to thee, in thee, and for thee.

That vague and wandering opinion of Deity is declared by an apostle to be ignorance of God:

Woe is me! how high art Thou in the highest, and how deep in the deepest! and Thou never departest, and we scarcely return to Thee.

If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God.

O crooked paths! Woe to the audacious soul, which hoped, by forsaking Thee, to gain some better thing!

Those who ask 'What was God doing before he made heaven and earth?' are still steeped in error which they should have discarded.

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

Tolle, lege: take up and read.

Do not say that the past was better than the present. Virtues are what make the good times and vices that go bad.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens.

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.

There can only be two basic loves ... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.