The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.
Saint AugustineHis knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
Saint AugustineLet him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.
Saint AugustineEvery day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.
Saint AugustineSomeone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.
Saint Augustine