St. Augustine

Let him understand that he is no bishop who loves to rule and not be useful to his flock.  —St. Augustine

Do not grieve or complain that you were born in a time when you can no longer see God in the flesh. He did not in fact take this privilege from you. As he says: “Whatever you have done to the least of my brothers, you did to me.” — St.…

Whoever possesses God is happy. — St. Augustine

Faith itself is of no avail without charity. For without charity faith can indeed be, but can profit nothing. — St. Augustine

What then are we to say of God? If you have understood what you are trying to say, it is not God. — St. Augustine

There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith. — St. Augustine

God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them. — St. Augustine

For whatever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of Baptism. — St. Augustine

May he who did not shrink from taking a beginning even like ours, perfect in us his gifts; and may he also make us children of God, he who for our sakes wished to become a child of man. — St. Augustine

This is the business of our life: by labor and prayer to advance in the grace of God, till we come to that height of perfection in which, with clean hearts, we may behold God. — St. Augustine