Augustine of Hippo

"Anger is a wind that blows out the lamp of the mind."

"We are not yet what we ought to be, but we are growing toward it."

"To love at all is to be vulnerable."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"There is something in humiliation which is good for the soul."

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."

"The day may be long, but the year is short."

"Human society abhors equality."

"Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so new."

"The happy life is thought to be one of virtue."

"Nothing that's violent is permanent."

"Our present-day society is shedding the concept of objective truth."

"Sin is not a stain, but a wound."

"A man's greatness is measured not by his wealth, but by his character."

"The mind is like water; when turbulent it is difficult to see, but when settled, it becomes clear."

"Love is the bridge between you and everything."

"In my deepest wounds I find my greatest strength."

"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."

"The purpose of all knowledge is love."

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the flower leaves on the heel of the one who crushed it."

"Do not despair; one of the thieves was saved."

"There is no salvation outside the Church."

"Understanding is the reward of faith."

"I am, but I am not what I was."

"The greatest thing you can do in this world is to love something greater than yourself."

"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains and the waves of seas, and they pass by themselves without wondering."

"Solitude is wisdom's school."

"Everything that glitters is not gold, and not every difficult path leads to wisdom."

"Peace is the tranquility of order."

"The good that we do today is the hope of tomorrow."