For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.
Saint AugustineBeware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
Saint AugustineWhen we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.
Saint AugustineOur Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so that they would wonder and be astonished at seeing not great but unusual things, who are unmoved by things daily seen. For the government of the world is a greater miracle than feeding five thousand men from five loaves; yet at the former no one wonders, the latter astonishes all men: not as a greater wonder, but as a rarer.
Saint Augustine