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

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...

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment

credo ut intelligam. (i believe so i can understand).

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

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.

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

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I’m in...

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.

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

This, then, is true liberty: the joy that comes in doing what is right. At the same time, it is also devoted service in obedience to righteous precept.

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.

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

True inner righteousness does not judge according to custom but by the measure of the most perfect law of God Almighty by which the mores of various places and times were adapted to those places...

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.

God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you — yet...

And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to...

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

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...

Among us, on the other hand, ‘the righteous man lives by faith.’ Now, if you take away positive affirmation, you take away faith, for without positive affirmation nothing is believed. And there are truths about...

He was not utterly unskilled in handling his own lack of training, and he refused to be rashly drawn into a controversy about those matters from which there would be no exit nor easy way...

Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul’s joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now...

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.

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.

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

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

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

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)

Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time came and went from one day to the next; in its coming and...

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

We are inflamed, by Thy Gift we are kindled; and are carried upwards; we glow inwardly, and go forwards. We ascend Thy ways that be in our heart, and sing a song of degrees; we...

For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you ‘today’ never comes to an end: and yet our ‘today’ does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists...

Lord Jesus, don’t let me lie when I say that I love you…and protect me, for today I could betray you.

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

if we are wayfarers who want to return home, then we must see the world as a means of transportation (terestibus vel marinis vehiculis) and always remember to distinguish the means and ends.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.

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.

If you understood him, it would not be God.

There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet...

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

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

Life is a misery, death an uncertainty. Suppose it steals suddenly upon me, in what state shall I leave this world? When can I learn what I have here neglected to learn? Or is it...

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

What should you, O man, do, you who seek your own glory whenever you do anything good, while when you do something bad, you figure out ways to blame God.

You have truly gained the mastery of the very stronghold of philosophy, Mother. For without doubt only for lack of words you did not elaborate on this subject as did Tullius [Cicero], whose words will...

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.