In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Truth is not private property.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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