The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. – Saint Augustine
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. – Saint Augustine
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. – Saint Augustine
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? – Saint Augustine
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. – Saint Augustine
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. – Saint Augustine
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. – Saint Augustine
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. – Saint Augustine