Saint Augustine

“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.”

“We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.”

“We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.”

“If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.”

“O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.”

“I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”

“Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.”

“Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?”

“Custom is second nature.”

“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”

“Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.”

“It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.”

“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”

“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”

“The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.”

“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.”

“Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.”

“Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.”

“Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.”

“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”