Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

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.

What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God; for He is the light, the melody, the fragrance, the food, the embracement of my inner self - there where is a brillance that space cannot contain, a sound that time cannot carry away, a perfume that no breeze disperses, a taste undimisnished by eating, a clinging together that no saiety will sunder. This is what I love when I love my God.