Quotes from St. Augustine

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

God has loved us as if there is only one of us

He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.

Hear the other side. (Audi Partem Alteram)

Hence, a devout Christian must avoid astrologers and all impious soothsayers, especially when they tell the truth, for fear of leading his soul into error by consorting with demons and entangling himself with the bonds of such association.

Late have I loved thee oh beauty so ancient yet so new

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

Love God and do whatever you please, for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

Man is God truly alive

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.