Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
Saint AugustineWhat then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker men are, the more they are troubled by such matters. Their weakness stems from a desire to appear learned, not with a knowledge of things, by which we are edified, but with a knowledge of signs, by which it is difficult not to be puffed up in some way; even a knowledge of things often makes people boastful, unless their necks are held down by the Lord's yoke.
Saint AugustineIt is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
Saint AugustineGod has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
Saint Augustine