Saint Augustine

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love... I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.

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.

Love, and do what you will.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

He who is not jealous is not in love.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

It is natural for men to rule over women.

It is according to the natural order that women serve their husbands.

Woman is subject to man.

Nothing is worse than a house where the woman commands and the man obeys.

I know nothing which brings the manly mind down from the heights more than a woman's caresses and that joining of bodies without which one cannot have a wife.

I have decided that there is nothing I should avoid so much as marriage.

Our first parents [Adam and Eve] fell into an open disobedience because already they were secretly corrupted; for the evil act had never been done had not an evil will preceded it.

All of humanity is born into the default condition of Original Sin, which shapes the essence of human behavior.

Even in those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression; that is, who had not yet sinned of their own individual will, as Adam did, but had drawn from him original sin.