Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.
Saint AugustineYour best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.
Saint AugustineGod bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
Saint AugustineFor a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.
Saint Augustine