Saint Augustine

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Hear the other side.
(Audi Partem Alteram)

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

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

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

The argument is at an end.
Saint Augustine - De Libero Arbitrio
Unless you believe, you will not understand.
Saint Augustine - The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909?14, p.1)
...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine - Confessions
I was in love with loving.

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
Saint Augustine - Confessions
My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

- Saint Augustine