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 AugustineDo not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.
Saint AugustineWhoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.
Saint AugustineWhoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all. Thus a man supported by faith, hope, and charity, with an unshaken hold upon them does not need the scriptures. . . And many live by these three things in solitude without books.
Saint Augustine