Saint Augustine

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

He that is jealous is not in love.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

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

Love is the beauty of the soul.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.