Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an Angel.

— Augustine of Hippo

For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under the same flail the straw is beaten small, while the grain is cleansed; and as the lees are not mixed with the oil, though squeezed out of the vat by the same pressure, so the same violence of affliction proves, purges, clarifies the good, but damns, ruins, exterminates the wicked. And thus it is that in the same affliction the wicked detest God and blaspheme, while the good pray and praise.

— Augustine of Hippo

For dismissed by You from Paradise, and having taken my journey into a far country, I cannot by myself return, unless Thou meekest the wanderer: for my return has throughout the whole tract of this world's time waited for Your mercy.

— Augustine of Hippo

For every man, however laudably he lives, yet yields in some points to the lust of the flesh.

— Augustine of Hippo

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

— Augustine of Hippo

For I am aware what ability is requisite to persuade the proud how great is the virtue of humility, which raises us, not by a quite human arrogance, but by a divine grace, above all earthly dignities that totter on this shifting scene.

— Augustine of Hippo

For in our hope we are saved.

— Augustine of Hippo

For it is one thing to see the Land of Peace from a wooded ridge, and yet another to walk the road that leads to it.

— Augustine of Hippo

For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity.

— Augustine of Hippo

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

— Augustine of Hippo