God suffers not the pain of repentance, nor is He deceived in any matter, so that He would wish to correct that wherein He has erred. But as when a man repents of anything, he wishes to change what he has done; thus where you hear that God repents, look for an actual change. God does it differently from you, although He calls it by the name of repentance; for thou dost it, because you had erred; while He does it, because He avenges, or frees.
Saint AugustineBlessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
Saint AugustineIt is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.
Saint AugustineLove God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.
Saint AugustinePray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint AugustineWho would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?
Saint AugustineIt was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral in her virginity, brought him forth, made visible for us, by whom, when he was invisible, she too was created. A Virgin conceiving, a Virgin bearing, a Virgin pregnant, a Virgin bringing forth, a Virgin perpetual. Why do you wonder at this, O man?
Saint Augustine