What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.

We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?