Know one’s imperfection…
It is the function of perfection to make one know one’s imperfection.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Cost of obedience…
The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Be fit for future…
None can become fit for the future life, who has not practiced himself for it now.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Be mindful of the poor…
Be particularly mindful of the poor, so that what you take from yourself by living sparingly you may lay away in heavenly treasures. Let the needy Christ receive that of which the fasting Christian deprives himself. Let the self-restraint of the willing soul be the sustenance of the one in need. Let the voluntary neediness of the one possessing an abundance become the necessary abundance of the one in need.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
To seek the greatest good…
To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
By thinking of the presence…
By habitually thinking of the presence of God, we succeed in praying twenty-four hours a day.
–Saint Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)
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