Augustine of Hippo

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.

The dove loves when it quarrels the wolf hates when it flatters.

Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

Because God has made us for Himself our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

Run to and fro everywhere holy fires beautiful fires for you are the light of the world nor are you put under a bushel. He whom you cleave unto is exalted and has exalted you. Run to and fro and be known unto all nations.

The world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time. There was no time before the world.

Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

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

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.

Order your soul. Reduce your wants.

Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but what is worse the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

Christ is not valued at all unless he is valued above all.

Surely we will not dare say that these laws are unjust, or rather, that they are not laws at all. For it seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.