Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.
Saint AugustineThere is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.
Saint AugustineNothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
Saint AugustineGod does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
Saint AugustineTo be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendour. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure but does not complain, for it is the friction which polishes him. It is the pressure which refines and makes him noble
Saint Augustine