Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Empty that which is to be filled. Consider that God wants to fill you up with honey. But if you are already full of vinegar, where will you put the honey? What was in the vessel must be emptied out, the vessel itself must be washed out and made clean and scoured, hard work though it may be, so that it may be made for something else, whatever it may be.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
It is better not to allow anger, however just and reasonable, to enter at all, than to admit it in ever so slight a degree; once admitted, it will not be easily expelled, for, though at first but a small plant, it will immediately grow into a large tree.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
The more fervent the desire, the more worthy will be its fruit. When the Apostle tells us: Pray without ceasing, he means this: Desire unceasingly that life of happiness which is nothing if not eternal, and ask it of him who alone is able to give it.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
God gives us some things, as the beginning of faith, even when we do not pray. Other things, such as perseverance, he has only provided for those who pray.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
