If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Saint AugustineFor where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.
Saint AugustineBlessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
Saint AugustineWhy persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?
Saint AugustineYou have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.
Saint Augustine