The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even though boys' games are much the same, they are punished for them by their elders. No one pities either the boys or the men, though surely we deserve pity, for I cannot believe that a good judge would approve of the beatings I received as a boy on the ground that my games delayed my progress in studying subjects which would enable me to play a less creditable game later in life.

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

Believe that you may understand.

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.

For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.