St. Augustine
Give me chastity, just not today.
Love the Lord, and do as you please.
You have made us for yourself ,O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in you.
You were within, but I looked for you without...and could not find you.
As we are, such are the times.
The greatest evil is physical pain.
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Pride changed angels into devils. Humility makes men as angels.
How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.
Saint Jerome
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
Haste is of the Devil.
St Teresa of Avila
Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
May God save me from gloomy saints.
The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love.
Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.
St Francis of Assisi
If God can work through me he can work through anyone.
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
Saint Ambrose
In some causes silence is dangerous
Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, that you not pay back abuse with abuse.
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal?
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Do not try to be more generous than God.
Who loves me, loves my dog.