God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

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.

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.